http://www.courrierlaval.com/Societe...artier-cossu/1
Posted on April 2, 2010
Nathalie Villeneuve
Residents of residential Bergerac III are worried. Since last fall, the private security guards driving SUVs with tinted windows monitor the area, round the clock, 7 days 7. Why? Nobody answers. 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, residents of the neighborhood attend helplessly as the mysterious comings and goings of vehicles of a kind.
Similar evidence
"I am the first to have called the police," said one area resident who wishes to remain anonymous as all other citizens interviewed by the Courier Laval.
Their stories are consistent. The carousel they describe is disturbing. Most often, two, three, even four vehicles patrolling the area, day or night.
Why do some of their neighbors they need protection so important? That is the question they ask themselves with terror.
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 visitors who go home are followed. It all began in October, "he recalls. "Many families have called police since. I even went to the headquarters. They say: "Do not worry '."
An answer that satisfies no one. Councilman District, Yvon Bromley, is also aware of the issue but no action is taken, provide the citizens questioned. Mr Bromley did not return calls Courrier Laval.
Mansef Productions
Two residents said they spoke with the driver of the mysterious vehicle. In both cases, the business card they were tense was called Mansef Productions. The company owns a network of pornographic sites. The only thing reassuring person.
Department of Laval police are only valid for residents of the area have 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 sparing of comments about the information collected from individuals who engage the services of security guards. "They were victims of threats and intimidation. They also appealed to the Montreal police. "
Are these private agents monitor several houses? How? Investigators have they looked at the activities in these houses? "We found the comings and goings, we looked at the issue in every sense," Mr Guerin.
Despite this, SUVs are still circulating in the neighborhood, recently confirmed a resident.