The police officer who used the signature stamp of a judge without his knowledge in order to get his hands on the collar of hitman Frédérick Silva is now persona non grata at the Montreal courthouse.
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The associate coordinating judge in criminal matters of the Court of Quebec for the Montreal region, Patricia Compagnone, recently requested that a police investigation be held into the acts committed by agent Guillaume Joly-Tessier.
In a letter sent to the authorities, the magistrate speaks of a “worrying, even disturbing event”.
“Furthermore, I also advise you that we can no longer trust police officer Joly-Tessier. He will no longer be received as a whistleblower of judicial authorization requests in Montreal, ”wrote Judge Compagnone.
Passages from the letter were read two weeks ago when Frédérick Silva returned to court.
“It seems pretty serious to me,” hammered her lawyer, Me Danièle Roy, as she asked Superior Court Judge Marc David for a postponement of the proceedings for her client.
killer on the loose
Silva, who turns 42 on Sunday, was sentenced to life in prison for three murders in 2018.
The hitman was already on the loose when he committed these crimes. The police suspected Bernard Cherfan, murdered Wednesday evening in a restaurant in Laval, of having helped the murderer to hide.
Silva was wanted for the murder of Daniel Armando Somoza Gildea, perpetrated outside a strip club in Montreal, in February 2017.
Two weeks earlier, the hitman had also fired several projectiles in the direction of ex-mafia boss Salvatore Scoppa, outside a restaurant-bar in Terrebonne.
This had earned him a place in the top 10 most wanted criminals in Quebec, so that the investigators were ready to do anything to arrest him.
As a tactic, Montreal police officer Guillaume Joly-Tessier fabricated a fake warrant using the official stamp of a justice of the peace, without her consent.
The investigator had just suffered a refusal to sign the document from judge Josée De Carufel.
Taking advantage of an absence of the magistrate, agent Joly-Tessier still affixed the stamp of the latter on the false warrant. He then “tinkered” with cutting out the judge’s signature from another judicial authorization.
The false warrant was used to compel a witness to cooperate in the investigation.
It was not possible to find out yesterday whether the Police Ethics Commissioner was currently studying a complaint against Agent Joly-Tessier.
