Residents of residential Bergerac III are worried. Since last fall, the private security guards driving SUVs with tinted windows monitor the area, 24 hours on 24, 7 / 7. Why? Nobody answered. Here is the first in a series of three articles published by the Courrier Laval.
On 18 November, on Jean-Paul Sartre, at dusk. A dark Ford Explorer, with a plate F is parked outside a house, engine off, lights out. On the driver's seat, a silhouette profile.
For nearly five months, the residents of the neighborhood attend, powerless, the mysterious comings and goings of vehicles of a kind.
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"I am the first to have called the police," said a resident of the area who wishes to remain anonymous, like other citizens interviewed by the Courier Laval.
Their stories are consistent. The carousel they describe is disturbing. Most often, two, three, even four vehicles patrol the area, day and night.
Why do some of their neighbors, they need protection so important? This is the question they all ask with alarm.
Unanswered
"Often, they are parked on the street Simone de Beauvoir at the entrance of the development, said the same resident. I fear for the safety of my family. I have four children. "
One of his neighbors said they had located "four or five houses" that appear to be targeted by the guards in SUVs. "There are movements of people between the houses," he said. People were escorted to a house to another. "
A third citizen said that sometimes the visitors who go home are followed. It all started in October, "he recalls. "Many families have called police since. I even went to the headquarters. They tell us: "Do not worry." "
An answer that satisfies no one. District Councillor, Yvon Bromley, is also aware of the case, but no action was taken, provide the citizens questioned. Mr. Bromley did not return calls from Courrier Laval.
Mansef Productions
Two residents said they spoke with the driver of the mysterious vehicle. In both cases, the business card that they handed it bore the name of Mansef Productions. The company owns a network of pornographic sites. The thing does not reassure anyone.
At the Laval Police Department, is valid only for residents of the area hired private security guards. "According to information we have, people do not have to worry about," says Lt. Daniel Guerin, head of communications.
"The situation is unusual," he concedes, while says little about the information collected from individuals who hire these guards. "They were victims of threats and intimidation. They have also appealed to the Montreal police. "
Are these private track multiple houses? How? Investigators have they considered the activities in these houses? "We realized the comings and goings, we examined the issue in every sense," says Mr Guerin.
Nevertheless, SUVs are still circulating in the neighborhood, recently confirmed a resident.
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