At first glance, the prison agent Kathya Veilleux inspects a well normal winter coat during a quarter of work, in January 2018. Meticulous, she nevertheless spots a label inside a lining. Then another. Labels that ultimately prove to be a hundred fentanyl stamps.
This lining, “it’s designer’s work,” said the aging agent, who made more than a hundred seizures during her 14 years of excavation experience. “A hundred patches of fentanyl, that makes damage. We are happy to have grabbed her before it comes back (in prison), “she said.
On Wednesday, Lise Destroisonsons, 74, accused of having tried to have tried this drug for his son, Dominique Héroux, then imprisoned in Rivière-des-Prairies was closed. The accused brought him three bags filled with personal effects, including the said coat.
After discovering stamps, Kathya Veilleux has dressed a jacket, gloves and glasses to protect herself from drugs, 20 to 40 times more powerful than heroin and about 100 times stronger than morphine. “Just when you touch it, it has effects!” That’s why we protect ourselves, ”she explains.
The prison agent was first questioned by the crown, then by the defense.
The questions of the defense lawyer, Me François Létourneau-Prézeau, suggested that the accused would have received the winter coat containing the fentanyl of another visitor, the two ladies having entered side by side.
This second visitor has already been suspended from visits, because she had brought objects or substances prohibited in the prison when she visited her husband. The seizures are very frequent, nuance however the nightclub agent, and the seized substance could have been as much fentanyl as a weapon, a telephone, tobacco or cannabis, for example.
After the filing of all the evidence by prosecution, the defense claimed a dismissal on Wednesday afternoon, believing that these were insufficient for the holding of a trial. A dismissal is granted when a “well-informed jury in law could not find guilty” the accused.
“There is no evidence that Mme Destroismaisons knew that there was fentanyl, or narcotics [dans le manteau] “Pled Me Létourneau-Prézeau.
“We have stamps that are very fine, with no smell, no weight, hidden in the back of a coat in an appearance of the blurry. »»
Several evidence show the accused entering the establishment, retorted the crown prosecutor, Jean-François Roy. In addition, Lise Destroismaisons had signed a document attesting that she had prepared the bags brought to her son herself.
Judge of the Court of Quebec, Betty Laurent, decided in favor of the prosecutor. “I have proof before me that she returns with the three bags, that she gives the mantle to give her son, that she signs a document to the effect that it was herself who made the bag. I have proof that there were a hundred stamps of fentanyl in the coat. »»
The trial will therefore continue on Thursday and Friday, with among others the testimonies of Lise Destroismaisons and her son, Dominique Héroux.
