“I” | No new identity for the informant teenager

Former police informant Michaël Lechasseur fails in his attempts to obtain state protection 35 years after being recruited by the Beloeil police, when he was still a teenager.

Her story was the subject of a major report by our Bureau of Investigation filmed in 2019 and was broadcast on Thursday on the JE program During the journalistic investigation conducted with the help of director Ninon Pedneault, the ministry Public Security had confirmed that steps would be taken to assess whether the person who was recruited as an informant when he was only 14 years old could benefit from police protection in the event of his return to the country.

At the end of February 2020, the man, now in his fifties, returned from a forced exile of several years in order to meet the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and integrate the program for the protection of witnesses.

“It was not at all as I thought,” says the former resident of Beloeil on the South Shore of Montreal.

His request was rejected by the SQ who claimed that the life of the former informant was not in danger.

The lawyer hired by Michaël Lechasseur to lead the battle against the government, however, asserts the opposite.

“The right to security is essential and organized crime has a long memory,” recalls Me Marc Bellemare.

“I am still a victim of all the bureaucracy, but I will fight to the end even if I have to pay for it with my life,” says Michaël Lechasseur.

He intends to continue his fight on the web where he has created a website to continue telling his story while asking the public for help in initiating legal proceedings.

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