MONTREAL - The mayor of a Montreal suburb publicly revealed herself Tuesday as the victim of ex-Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel, who was sentenced to eight months in prison after sexually assaulting her in 2017 when they were both PQ members.
Longueuil Mayor Catherine Fournier says she's ready to speak out about her experience seeking justice following her sexual assault. "You may hear a lot from me in the next few days," the mayor wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. "It's finally time for me to speak publicly about what I've been through." "If I choose to speak out from now on, it is to share my experience, to let other people benefit from what I have learned."
Catherine Fournier, the mayor of Longueuil and a former MNA, has revealed that she was the victim of Harold Lebel, the former Parti Québécois (PQ) MNA convicted of sexual assault.