2024-01-09 00:40:58
A rapper managed to shoot a threatening video clip within the walls of the Sorel-Tracy detention center, even though prisoners are not allowed to have cell phones behind bars.
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Yahya Mouhime, who uses the stage name VT, was sentenced to 18 months in prison last June, a little less than a month after stabbing a man in the lung, before stealing his watch, wallet and iPhone in the parking lot of the Le Garage stripper bar in Mirabel.
However, the prison did not prevent him from publishing, on Saturday, a video clip entitled Infamous on his YouTube channel. In the video shot in the cell, we can see the rapper and acolytes playing the role of dancers swaying to a song with threatening words.
At the start of the video, we can hear an extract from columnist Sophie Durocher commenting on Mr. Mouhime’s case. “I will never be able to be overtaken. I will never be able to get beaten up. Try it and you will pass,” the rapper then continues before miming a gun firing towards the camera, with a bonus sound effect.
The song has accumulated more than 50,000 views in two days.
This publication, however, raises questions, including those of the former police officer specializing in organized crime André Gélinas.
“How is it that people, no matter who, can have access to cell phones in prison? This calls into question the entire security aspect because, if these people can obtain and bring in cell phones, obviously, that opens the door either to narcotics or weapons or all kinds of tools or things that can compromise security,” he commented to TVA Nouvelles.
The Ministry of Public Safety (MSP) has confirmed that it is investigating the broadcast of this video clip. Prison authorities, however, refused to indicate whether they were able to recover the cell phone or whether they intend to impose a sanction, if necessary, on the inmate.
The president of the Union of Peace Officers in Correctional Services of Quebec, Mathieu Lavoie, for his part told TVA Nouvelles that the sanctions taken to crack down on inmates in possession of a cell phone are insufficient.
– With information from Kevin Crane-Desmarais, TVA Nouvelles
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