Reports have revealed that the detention and alleged beating by Quebec police of a Senegalese diplomat came as a bailiff was attempting to seize property at her residence to pay for a judgment against her.
It could be recalled that Quebec’s rental board had in June ordered Oumou Kalsoum Sall to pay a former landlord more than $45,000 for damage done to a home she occupied from Nov. 1, 2018, to Oct. 31, 2020.
According to court records, the debt was not paid and a bailiff went to her residence in Gatineau, Que., to enforce it Aug. 2.
Harping on the development, the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has claimed the diplomat had to be hospitalized after being handcuffed and beaten by police, and Quebec’s independent police watchdog has opened an investigation into the incident, reports said.
In their statement, Gatineau police said that they were called to the residence to assist a bailiff and that they arrested a woman after she hit a police officer in the face, adding that she was tackled to the ground after allegedly biting another officer.
Reacting to the development, Global Affairs Canada described the incident as “unacceptable,” as international treaties give diplomats immunity from any form of detention or arrest.
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