The man who pushed a TVA journalist live on television apologized in a half-word on Saturday, while another individual will face justice for threatening a Radio-Canada reporter by email.
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Yan Pelletier, 47, from Saint-Rémi on the South Shore of Montreal, is accused of death threats and intimidation towards Brigitte Noël, who works for the program Enquête.
He is accused of having “used violence” in order to force the victim “to refrain from doing something that she had the legal right to do, namely: her job as a journalist”, according to the act of denunciation.
The investigation was not very long on the side of the Montreal police, while the email was sent on January 31.
According to our information, Pelletier told her that she should not walk in the street at night, leaving threats hanging over what could happen to her.
He allegedly sent this email because of one of Brigitte Noël’s reports.
Pelletier is due to appear on March 3.
The journalist preferred not to comment on the situation.
Fake apologies
For his part, the man who would have given a violent push in the back of TVA journalist Raymond Fillion, while he was live, apologized on Facebook, while trying to justify himself.
“Yesterday I got carried away by my emotions, everything was peaceful [sic], wrote Danny Di-Genova. I made a mistake and I should have breathed [sic].”
Screenshot taken from TVA Nouvelles
In his publication, now non-existent because the father of the family deleted his profile, the latter tried to blame the police and journalists for his gesture, which had sparked outrage on social networks.
“The police attacked us, because the media makes us hated, but in reality what we were doing was nothing wrong, on the contrary, we were helping the country. [sic]“, he argued, according to the screenshot published by the daily Le Droit.
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Danny Di Genova, the man who would have pushed TVA journalist Raymond Fillion not far from Parliament in Ottawa.
The entrepreneur also referred to this false news that a woman had died after being trampled by a cavalry horse, during the major police intervention to leave the demonstrators surrounding the Parliament for weeks.
The Journal was able to speak with Danny Di-Genova yesterday. The latter had initially agreed to deliver his version of the facts, but instead decided to cancel the interview, on the advice of a lawyer.
Raymond Fillion filed a complaint with the Ottawa police and an investigation is open. The man could therefore face assault charges.
Several journalists threatened
In recent weeks, people working in the media who have been called upon to cover the demonstrations in Ottawa and Quebec City have repeatedly been victims of intimidation and even physical attacks, which has been denounced by many, including the Professional Federation of Journalists of Quebec.
– With the collaboration of Michael Nguyen
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com