Montreal Alouettes suspend Christophe Normand in response to child luring allegation

The Montreal Alouettes say fullback Christophe Normand has been suspended pending the result of a luring investigation.

Normand, a former trainer, faces two prices of luring a baby below 18, together with one rely of luring a baby below 16, or who the accused believed was below 16 on the time of the offence.

The offences are alleged to have occurred Aug. 9, 2022.

Provincial police Sgt. Audrey-Anne Bilodeau stated each offences contain a single sufferer.

“To respect all events concerned, we are going to await the tip of the investigation,” Alouettes president Mario Cecchini stated in a launch. “As of now, Christophe is suspended till additional discover.”

Patricia Johnson, a spokeswoman for Quebec’s prosecution service, stated the 30-year-old Normand was arrested Thursday by Quebec provincial police.

The arrest occurred after police searched his residence on Aug. 19.

Normand appeared in courtroom in Granby, Que. on Thursday afternoon and was launched with circumstances.

There is not any proof that Normand met the alleged sufferer after he tried to lure her, Bilodeau stated, including that investigators “confirmed that there would have been no different occasions the place the sufferer and the accused would have been collectively besides in school final 12 months.”

Normand has labored within the low season as a college trainer since 2015.

Two years in the past, in accordance the Montreal Alouettes’ web site, he began educating social research at Monseigneur-Euclide-Theberge Excessive College, his alma mater, in Marieville, Que.

Bilodeau stated the investigation has solely recognized one sufferer, however police are asking members of the general public who’ve details about the alleged occasions, or different attainable victims, to come back ahead.

A seven-year veteran within the CFL, Normand is presently in his third season with Montreal.

Extra coming.