Former PQ leader André Boisclair’s sex assault cases returning to court – Montreal
Former Parti Québécois chief André Boisclair’s prison instances on allegations of sexual assault are due again in courtroom Monday.
Boisclair, 56, has pleaded not responsible to fees in separate instances involving two alleged victims whose identities are coated by a publication ban.
In a single case, Boisclair is charged with sexual assault with the participation of a 3rd social gathering and sexual assault with a weapon in reference to occasions that allegedly happened in January 2014.
Within the different, Boisclair is charged with sexual assault for occasions alleged to have taken place in November 2015.
He renounced his proper to a preliminary inquiry in each instances final September and elected to go straight to trial earlier than decide alone.
Boisclair was a provincial cupboard minister and served as PQ chief between 2005 and 2007 when the social gathering was in opposition.
He was later Quebec’s delegate common in New York from 2012 to 2013 and was president of the City Growth Institute of Quebec from 2016 till his arrest.
Boisclair was elected for the primary time within the Montreal driving of Gouin in 1989 after we was simply 23.
