05-30-2012, 02:12 PM
This is like an episode of Criminal Minds or CSI....
thestar.com
OTTAWA—Montreal police said Wednesday the severed hand and foot shipped by mail to Ottawa Tuesday and a decomposingtorso discovered in a Montreal suburb are all from the same male victim.
Police confirmed to reporters in Montreal they are closing in on a suspect in the gruesome case involving, so far, three body parts: the foot in a package opened at Conservative headquarters, a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse in Ottawa, and the headless, limbless torso in Montreal.
“The suspect and victim knew each other,” Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters.
“It isn’t linked to organized crime.”
The packages in Ottawa were mailed from Montreal, said police.
Montreal will now lead the investigation.
Two top Conservative ministers denounced as a “criminal” act the shipment of a bloodied severed hand discovered at an Ottawa mail depot and delivery of foot to the governing party’s headquarters.
“Bizarre and completely horrifying,” said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, saying it was clearly a “completely disgusting criminal act.”
The Conservative government’s top security minister condemned the incidents as “very disturbing.”
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said he was “not prepared to discuss security concerns” but asked if he views it as an act of terrorism, Toews said it was “an unusual development even insofar as homicides go.”
But he said he would not comment further on the ongoing police investigation.
A spokesperson for Montreal police said the investigation is advancing rapidly and that police should be able to identify a suspect in the “next few hours.”
Ottawa police intercepted a package at a Canada Post depot containing a severed human hand Tuesday hours after a bloodied severed human foot in a sealed package was delivered to the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada in downtown Ottawa Tuesday morning.
The gruesome mail delivery was accepted by a receptionist at the party’s 12th floor suite of offices.
Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said the package was brought to Jenni Byrne, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party’s national campaign manager in the last election, “because it looked suspicious.”
“It was opened, Ms. Byrne examined it, saw the blood and smelled the odour and made the decision to call police.”
Delorey said that headquarters “staff are very upset and disturbed by what happened yesterday.”
“When we began to open the package we saw what appeared to be blood, and an extremely foul odour came from the package once it was partially opened,” he said in an email reply. “It was such a horrible odour I’m sure many of us will not forget it.”
“We called the police immediately. They came and investigated the package.”
Colin McSweeney, another top party official and trusted confidante of the prime minister’s, declined Tuesday to say anything about the issue, although he most certainly would have thoroughly briefed the Prime Minister.
Toews declined to elaborate at a news conference to announce funding for six “terrorism-focused research” to “counter violent terrorism in our communities.”
He announced worth $1.1 million, awarded under the Kanishka Project, a multi-year investment in terrorism-focused research.
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said his thoughts were with the Conservative party staff involved in the “terrible” incident.
“I’m thinking of the workers who are faced with that situation and I just hope the police get to the bottom of it,” he told reporters Wednesday.
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A police officer removes a package containg a human foot from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday.
thestar.com
OTTAWA—Montreal police said Wednesday the severed hand and foot shipped by mail to Ottawa Tuesday and a decomposingtorso discovered in a Montreal suburb are all from the same male victim.
Police confirmed to reporters in Montreal they are closing in on a suspect in the gruesome case involving, so far, three body parts: the foot in a package opened at Conservative headquarters, a hand found at a Canada Post warehouse in Ottawa, and the headless, limbless torso in Montreal.
“The suspect and victim knew each other,” Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters.
“It isn’t linked to organized crime.”
The packages in Ottawa were mailed from Montreal, said police.
Montreal will now lead the investigation.
Two top Conservative ministers denounced as a “criminal” act the shipment of a bloodied severed hand discovered at an Ottawa mail depot and delivery of foot to the governing party’s headquarters.
“Bizarre and completely horrifying,” said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, saying it was clearly a “completely disgusting criminal act.”
The Conservative government’s top security minister condemned the incidents as “very disturbing.”
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said he was “not prepared to discuss security concerns” but asked if he views it as an act of terrorism, Toews said it was “an unusual development even insofar as homicides go.”
But he said he would not comment further on the ongoing police investigation.
A spokesperson for Montreal police said the investigation is advancing rapidly and that police should be able to identify a suspect in the “next few hours.”
Ottawa police intercepted a package at a Canada Post depot containing a severed human hand Tuesday hours after a bloodied severed human foot in a sealed package was delivered to the headquarters of the Conservative Party of Canada in downtown Ottawa Tuesday morning.
The gruesome mail delivery was accepted by a receptionist at the party’s 12th floor suite of offices.
Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said the package was brought to Jenni Byrne, a former senior adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party’s national campaign manager in the last election, “because it looked suspicious.”
“It was opened, Ms. Byrne examined it, saw the blood and smelled the odour and made the decision to call police.”
Delorey said that headquarters “staff are very upset and disturbed by what happened yesterday.”
“When we began to open the package we saw what appeared to be blood, and an extremely foul odour came from the package once it was partially opened,” he said in an email reply. “It was such a horrible odour I’m sure many of us will not forget it.”
“We called the police immediately. They came and investigated the package.”
Colin McSweeney, another top party official and trusted confidante of the prime minister’s, declined Tuesday to say anything about the issue, although he most certainly would have thoroughly briefed the Prime Minister.
Toews declined to elaborate at a news conference to announce funding for six “terrorism-focused research” to “counter violent terrorism in our communities.”
He announced worth $1.1 million, awarded under the Kanishka Project, a multi-year investment in terrorism-focused research.
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair said his thoughts were with the Conservative party staff involved in the “terrible” incident.
“I’m thinking of the workers who are faced with that situation and I just hope the police get to the bottom of it,” he told reporters Wednesday.
A police officer removes a package containg a human foot from the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Tuesday.
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