Montreal-area mayor reveals she was sexually assaulted by convicted former politician | 24CA News

The mayor of a Montreal suburb has revealed herself because the sexual assault sufferer of ex-Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel.

Catherine Fournier had requested Quebec Superior Court Justice Serge Francoeur throughout a listening to final month to take away the publication ban on her identification.

Francoeur on April 6 authorized the request, which enters into impact right now — coinciding with the published of a documentary about Fournier’s case.

Fournier was with the PQ from December 2016 to March 2019, when she stop the social gathering to take a seat as an Independent; she was elected mayor of Longueuil, Que., in November 2021.

A choose in January sentenced LeBel, 60, to eight months in jail after a jury discovered him responsible of sexual assaulting Fournier at his condominium in 2017.

He can even serve two years probation, is prohibited from contacting the sufferer and will likely be registered as a intercourse offender for 20 years.

LeBel, who was granted parole this week, is a former member of the legislature between 2014 and 2022.