Cape Breton Post

Minister’s husband agrees to psychiatri­c assessment

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HALIFAX — The husband of Nova Scotia’s immigratio­n minister has been taken into custody at a psychiatri­c hospital on charges he assaulted, threatened and choked her on New Year’s Eve. Maroun Diab was in Halifax provincial court Thursday where he consented to a 30-day assessment at the East Coast Forensic Hospital to determine his fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibi­lity. Diab had been released on a series of conditions last month, including prohibitin­g him from having any contact with his wife, Lena Diab, and two other people. He also faces two counts of threatenin­g two other people and will return to court March 8. Halifax police confirmed that the 58-year-old was arrested early New Year’s Day after they received a call shortly before midnight from the Diabs’ home near Mount Saint Vincent University. Lena Diab later described the incident as a “very tragic, sad, private and personal matter,’’ and publicly thanked the community for supporting her and her family of four children and one grandchild.

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