The Administrative Housing Tribunal (TAL) has ordered a Senegalese diplomat to pay $45,300 to her Gatineau landlord for looting the house she was renting, police arrested this month.
“The furniture is full of cockroaches. The furniture was torn and scratched. It is lacking. Everything is dirty. To take another example, a tenant uses charcoal in a gas BBQ,” reads the ruling last June.
Omou Kalsoum Saul, a diplomat at the Senegalese embassy in Ottawa, had nightmares for her employer, Michel Lemay.
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This mom rented a beautiful home in Gatineau from 2018 to 2020. Judge Anne A. Laverdeur noted that it was originally furnished and “tastefully” decorated.
“In May 2020, the house was found to have cockroaches. There are four treatments. That is not enough. […] Consequently, the landlord has to dispose of almost all his furniture,” the judge noted.
The diplomat also used to shower with the door open, causing several water losses in the house.
“The basement floor covering is soaked and there is mold on the walls. […] The water damages the coating of the walls and seeps under the floor,” we read.
Oumou Kalsoum was ordered to pay $45,347.95 to Saul Michel Lemay to compensate for the destroyed furniture, cleaning and work to repair the structure of the home.
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A A bailiff and Gatineau police knocked on the door of a Senegalese embassy employee on August 2. For this case.
According to the Service de Police de la Ville de Gatineau (SPVG), officers encountered a “disturbed and uncooperative man”. While arresting him, two police officers were reportedly beaten and bitten.
In a press release published after the authorities’ intervention, the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the SPVG of “beating” a diplomat during a police intervention at his home on August 2.
“As the Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI) has been mandated to conduct an investigation, we are not authorized to communicate any information other than what we have disclosed,” it confirmed. Log Last night Marian Leduc, from SPVG.
Our request for an interview with the Senegalese Embassy in Ottawa went unanswered.
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