More Quebec reporters were under surveillance, this time by provincial police
MONTREAL — The controversy surrounding the surveillance of reporters in Quebec intensified Wednesday as provincial police admitted they monitored the cellphones of several prominent journalists three years ago.
“Warrants had been obtained to be able to (log) outgoing and incoming calls of at least six members of the media,” Capt. Guy Lapointe said in an interview.
He said police kept tabs on the phones as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of confidential wiretap information in 2013.
News of the surveillance came a few days after it emerged Montreal police obtained court-authorized warrants this year to monitor the iPhone of La Presse columnist Patrick Lagace because they believed the target of one of their internal investigations was feeding him information.