This is one of those stories where you want to hear what the police have to say about the arrest. Of course, charges are up to the Crown.
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Radio-Canada reporter arrested for criminal harassment after contacting source ‘3 times’
By Abigail Bimman, Global News
A CBC Radio-Canada reporter has been arrested after contacting the subject of a story he was working on, accused of criminal harassment.
Antoine Trépanier was working on a story about the head of Big Brothers and Big Sisters in Western Quebec. As part of his investigation, he reported Yvonne Dubé falsely claimed she was a lawyer between the fall of 2011 and March 2012.
According to his boss, Yvan Cloutier, Trépanier contacted Dubé three times in the course of his reporting. First, they had a 20-minute phone call, where she agreed to meet for a television interview. Cloutier says she never showed up – hence the second call, where she told Trépanier she’d changed her mind. He sent an email the next day to give her another opportunity.
“We do this every day,” says Cloutier of his reporter’s work. “We give a heads up. We call that person, we say, ‘You know what, in the next couple of days, we will run a story about you, would you like to give us your point of view?’
https://globalnews.ca/news/4088715/radio-canada-reporter-arrested-harassment/
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Radio-Canada reporter arrested for criminal harassment after contacting source ‘3 times’
By Abigail Bimman, Global News
A CBC Radio-Canada reporter has been arrested after contacting the subject of a story he was working on, accused of criminal harassment.
Antoine Trépanier was working on a story about the head of Big Brothers and Big Sisters in Western Quebec. As part of his investigation, he reported Yvonne Dubé falsely claimed she was a lawyer between the fall of 2011 and March 2012.
According to his boss, Yvan Cloutier, Trépanier contacted Dubé three times in the course of his reporting. First, they had a 20-minute phone call, where she agreed to meet for a television interview. Cloutier says she never showed up – hence the second call, where she told Trépanier she’d changed her mind. He sent an email the next day to give her another opportunity.
“We do this every day,” says Cloutier of his reporter’s work. “We give a heads up. We call that person, we say, ‘You know what, in the next couple of days, we will run a story about you, would you like to give us your point of view?’
https://globalnews.ca/news/4088715/radio-canada-reporter-arrested-harassment/
