Municipal worker charged after attack on Umiujaq’s mayor
Davidee Sappa suffers ‘serious’ injuries, medevaced to Montreal
An Umiujaq municipal employee is charged with assault on the community’s mayor. (File Photo)
Umiujaq Mayor Davidee Sappa was medevaced to Montreal after he was attacked in his home earlier this week.
The accused is a 47-year-old municipal employee, according to Nunavik Police Service.
The employee is charged with assault causing bodily harm after the incident, which police allege occurred June 23.
The accused, whom police did not name, was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, Deputy Chief Jean-Francois Morin said.
Why isn’t the Nunavik Police Services making these criminals names public? Why is the Quebec Justice System allowing violent criminals to be sent out of their home communities and placing them in other Nunavik communities where they commit other violent acts? To me, its Corruption. And they are just passing the burden to other people in other villages to deal with.
Nunavut Court of Justice does the same thing in Iqaluit. They will remand someone from the communities and then release them in Iqaluit. Most of them never return to the communities and cause problems here.
It’s not NCJ responsibility to return the accused to their home community.
Besides perhaps the accused wants to stay in Iqaluit because it is safer than their home community or for any other number of reasons.
Ohh someone is finally speak on behave of there department, stop making excuses and can you check the mental health workers and social workers and look at them they are mostly foreign workers and check the reports toward inuit and they are government workers. They are not evening helping to struggling inuits with financial issue, there might more ways to help from them for benefits, i think they are taking it without knowing it
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Attacking and assault, seems to be right up there in the crimes of Nunavik. No one really is immune to be assaulted. Attack on the mayor of a community could possibly be indicating that the desperation and frustrations, as manifested in the criminal action, has crossed yet another line towards undermining authority, or authority undermining citizens, and citizens are taking a no care attitude, and the devide continues its gap. When you assault someone , there’s no excuse, no matter what, but hopefully for anyone monitoring and studying crime, and its impact, these crimes should not go unnoticed , as just another crime. Just saying.