Civil servant beaten
Police are investigating the vicious beating of a Beaconsfield civil servant,
Police are investigating a case of a Beaconsfield civil servant who was viciously attacked this month, according to city officials.
Denis Chabot, Beaconsfield’s director of urban planning and municipal patrol, is currently on a leave of absence for an indefinite period.
“We know he was assaulted and the police are still investigating to see if it’s linked to his job or not,” director general Patrice Boileau said Monday.
“We’re in communication with the SQ, but it’s up to them to answer this,” he continued. “We don’t intervene in what they are doing.”
Chabot is recovering from his injuries at home but it is not yet known when he could return to work, Boileau said.
Councillor Rhonda Massad told The Gazette last week that she heard Chabot had been assaulted several weeks ago while at the Summerlea Golf Club in Vaudreuil-Dorion, though she added she doesn’t know if the incident has anything to do with his post with the city and she wasn’t aware of any threats being made. “We have very little detail,” she said of the incident. Although the Sûreté du Québec confirm there is an investigation into an assault at Summerlea Golf Club’s parking lot on De Lotbinière Rd. on the afternoon of Oct. 5, it will not confirm the identity of the victim for privacy reasons.
As for the Oct. 5 incident in Vaudreuil-Dorion, the SQ is working in conjunction with the Montreal police force, SQ spokeswoman Joyce Kemp said Tuesday, though she declined to elaborate. She added no arrests in the case have been made yet.
Constable Ingrid Asselin reported that a man suffered blows to his upper body on Oct. 5 and was transferred to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. She wouldn’t confirm what objects were used as a weapon in the attack. The two assailants are described as black males in their mid-20s who wore dark clothes. They drove off in a four-door grey 1990s model car. When asked about a possible motivation behind the armed assault, Asselin said there was no theft. Police are treating it as a case of intimidation.