Operation Malaise

Operation Malaise is a wide-ranging Canadian police investigation of an alleged pedophile ring which included officers from the SQ and RCMP and about 150 police were deployed to make the arrests in Montreal, Quebec City, Lévis, Trois-Rivières, St-Eustache and Mont St-Hilaire. In addition to the arrests, the SQ said police were conducting searches in the homes of suspects, and computer equipment was being seized for analysis by the force’s IT forensics department. The word Malaise (/məˈleɪz/ muh-LAZE) is defined as a feeling of general discomfort, uneasiness or pain, of being "out of sorts", often the first indication of an infection or other disease.

On January 28, 2016, Police in Quebec arrested 13 people throughout Quebec and in Toronto, who they described as a Pedophile ring, on trumped-up charges steming from "allegedly exchanging advice on ways to sexually abuse children without raising suspicion", simply for their association in real life and in internet chat forums as a pretext to search their homes. Additional charges were brought after the suspects homes were raided and tossed and their electronic devises seized and searched. The men arrested appear to have been members of an as yet unnamed French Canadian support forum for Boylovers.

Defendants

1. Jonathan St-Pierre, 28, of Trois-Rivières.
2. André Faivre, 67, of Montreal.
3. Jean Marc St-Hilaire, 66, of Saint-Eustache.
4. Claude Paquette, 31, of Montreal.
5. Patrick Charbonneau, 36, of Montreal.
6. David Boucher, 31, of Montreal.
7. Simon Brochu, 34, of Montreal.
8. Francis Perron, 46, of Quebec City.
9. Kenneth Jodoin, 40, of Montreal.
10. Dave Turcotte, 40, of Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset.
11. Richard Lévesque
12. Roger Lepage, 74, of Lévis.
13. Didier Chételat, 27, of Montreal
14. Vincent Rodrigue 39, who has no known address. (detained on unrelated charges).

See also

• Pedophile ring
• Human rights and boylove