Montreal police fabricate evidence to intimidate officers, suspects: ex-cop
MONTREAL — A former organized crime investigator with the Montreal police who accused the force of corruption and fabricating evidence says he’s skeptical about the provincial police’s mandate to look into the allegations.
Giovanni Di Feo says politicians, authorities and the public need to be strong-willed to change what he claims is a culture of impunity in the Montreal police’s internal affairs department.
Di Feo, along with his former colleague Jimmy Cacchione, recently came forward claiming they were forced out of their jobs in 2013 after trying to blow the whistle on corruption in the city police.
“We had information on the fact that some people were actually fabricating information against other police officers and regular criminals,” Di Feo told The Canadian Press in an interview Wednesday.