Police say Kuujjuaq incident was attempted stabbing

Suspect arrested, will appear in court Thursday; no word of possible injuries

Nunavik police say a woman died following a snowmobile crash Wednesday in Kuujjuaq. (File photo by Jeff Pelletier)

By Cedric Gallant - Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Police say an altercation and attempted stabbing outside a store in Kuujjuaq has led to one person being arrested.

According to Nunavik Police Service deputy Chief Jean-François Morin, the incident started inside the Northern store at about 12:50 p.m. Wednesday.

Morin said it’s believed one of the individuals waited for the other to come outside, where he attempted to stab that person.

A suspect was arrested, and will appear in court Thursday by phone.

Police did not release the name of the suspect or say what charge he faces, and did not say if the intended victim was injured.

 

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(11) Comments:

  1. Posted by Flabbergasted on

    Violence, domestic violence, sexual molestation, rapes and elder abuse is normalized in Nunavik Quebec. With these violent attacks in such small isolated communities, how many crimes are not being reported to the local police? How many young children, boys and girls and women are terrorized on a daily basis knowing that such predators are walking our streets and those in charge of the communities are still covering their eyes, nose, mouthes and ears. The organizationms in town and those whom work for these organizations just keep their mouthes shut. So Sad.

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    • Posted by Blind in One Eye on

      @ Flabbergasted

  2. Posted by KUUJJUAMIUK on

    Drunk crazy people every where you look here, cops got their hands full, court is allways full.

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  3. Posted by What’s happening in Kuujjuaq on

    Both guys in the video are in the fast food business
    Has the Kuujjuaq “Poutine War” escalated to mid afternoon fights?
    What’s next? Who has the speediest delivery service? Or a Pepsi versus Coke sampling?
    I still think Goos submarine is the best though.

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    • Posted by Must be the customers on

      Come on Trolls. We’ve got to link this to Kuujjuaq Inuit. It has to be an Inuit angle of blame we can feed off of.

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    • Posted by kuujj on

      fighting over disgusting food

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  4. Posted by Blind in One Eye on

    @ Flabbergasted

    Something we can agree on – The “Organizations” Makivik/KRG/KI/Tulattavik, as well as the smaller employers -Northern, Local Municipalities, Co-ops, Construction companies, etc operating in Nunavik should start taking accountability for those Southerners they bring to the region, when their recruit runs afoul of the law. Perhaps were they a bit more selective in who they inflict on the region, situations such as this would not occur.

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    • Posted by John on

      You need to consider to demographic attracted to working in Nunavik.

      It skews young, male and single. The organizations must hire the ppl that apply. The employees themselves need to be held to account just like anyone else in Nunavik.

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  5. Posted by Why botter if you don’t know! on

    Why do people bother to comment when they are all wrong? If you have no idea what you’re talking about, it’s better to stay quiet. One of the individuals involved in the incident was a local employee who got fired, while the other is a business owner along with his sister. However, it’s important to note that the incident has nothing to do with food or drugs, despite what some people are saying.

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    • Posted by Just plain blind in both eyes on

      @ Why botter if you don’t know! on May 5, 2024

      There were no Inuit involved in this incident, so what do you mean by “local hire”? That’s usually used as a dog whistle for the colonists to sh*t on the local population. Ie Inuit.

      Check the video. Where is the Inuk?

  6. Posted by Jacob kuuj on

    stop buying such expensive food when we have everything from the land caribou sub agijaugnutu. Seafood chowder akijaugnitu many more from the land after all they extremely full of salt like full.

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