Operation Malaise

Operation Malaise is a wide-ranging Canadian police investigation of an alleged pedophile ring which included officers from the SQ and RCMP About 150 police were deployed to make the arrests in Montreal, Quebec City, Lévis, Trois-Rivières, St-Eustache and Mont St-Hilaire. In addition to the arrests, the SQ said police were conducting searches in the homes of suspects, and computer equipment was being seized for analysis by the force’s IT forensics department.

On January 28, 2016, Police in Quebec arrested 13 people throughout Quebec and in Toronto, who they described as a Pedophile ring, on trumped-up charges steming from "allegedly exchanging advice on ways to sexually abuse children without raising suspicion", simply for their association in real life and in internet chat forums as a pretext to search their homes.

Defendants

1. Jonathan St-Pierre, 28, of Trois-Rivières.
2. André Faivre, 67, of Montreal.
3. Jean Marc St-Hilaire, 66, of Saint-Eustache.
4. Claude Paquette, 31, of Montreal.
5. Patrick Charbonneau, 36, of Montreal.
6. David Boucher, 31, of Montreal.
7. Simon Brochu, 34, of Montreal.
8. Francis Perron, 46, of Quebec City.
9. Kenneth Jodoin, 40, of Montreal.
10. Dave Turcotte, 40, of Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset.
11. Richard Lévesque
12. Roger Lepage, 74, of Lévis.
13. Didier Chételat
14. Vincent Rodrigue

See also

• Pedophile ring
• Human rights and boylove