“The underworld reads it to find out what the police think and the police read it to find out what the underworld is doing” Allo Police publisher Andre Parent said during an interview in his office at 1809 Parthenais street.Īllo Police has not always been recommended reading in all quarters. Over the years, as detailed accounts of robbers, murders and beatings have helped make it must reading among police and criminals alike, and one of the province’s most popular weeklies. Notorious for lurid pictures and blood-drenched headlines, the weekly tabloid Allo Police has come to be regarded as Quebec’s unofficial gazette of the criminal world. The Montreal Star, Saturday, July 14, 1979 Scroll to the bottom and there’s a second article from The Gazette: Allo Police publisher Andre Parent in 1979 I would comment, but I believe it speaks for itself. In Quebec City on Thursday, members of the provincial legislature voted unanimously to recognize the importance of the principle of protecting journalistic sources.This is a reprint from a 1979 Montreal Star article. Kalogerakis said the computer will remain under seal until a judge rules on the validity of the search warrant.
"The public has the right to know how representatives of the state who are charged with applying the law behave." "It is unacceptable to search journalists or news organizations in order to discover sources when what was revealed was in the public interest, which is the case here," said president Jean-Thomas Leveille.
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Quebec's professional order of journalists released a statement saying it "vigorously denounces" the seizure. Moreover, he said all the information reported in the story was made public after Vadboncoeur appeared in front of a disciplinary committee. There were complaints about her behaviour and we thought this was in the public interest." "Our story was about the very questionable behaviour of a judge after a Christmas party. "We believe that this is case where people want to shoot the messenger," Kalogerakis said. Kalogerakis said the judicial council wants the computer in order to find out how Nguyen received his information. Kalogerakis said the judicial council - which hears complaints against provincially appointed judges - suspects Nguyen "hacked" into its website to collect the information. The reporter received a copy of a surveillance video allegedly showing the incident - which was uploaded to the newspaper's website - as well as a report detailing a complaint against the judge. Nguyen reported in the newspaper last June that judge Suzanne Vadboncoeur allegedly hurled insults and acted abusively towards constables after a Christmas party in December at the Montreal courthouse. We will contest the validity of the search warrant as far as we can." "I can tell you that our reporter did not break any laws to get his story," Kalogerakis said. Managing Editor George Kalogerakis said Thursday the search warrant indicated the council suspected Nguyen illegally accessed its website for details about a complaint against a Quebec Court judge. Provincial police seized Journal de Montreal reporter Michael Nguyen's computer at the behest of Quebec's judicial council on Wednesday at the offices of the tabloid newspaper.
A Montreal journalist whose computer was seized by police after reporting on the alleged abusive behaviour of a judge did nothing wrong and broke no laws, said his managing editor on Thursday.
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