News Releases

Quebec Region

News Release

Communiqué

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SAINTE-ANNE-DES-PLAINES, QC, May 4, 2007 - On May 3, 2007, around 2:40 p.m., Émile Girardot, an inmate at Archambault Institution, a medium-security federal penitentiary, died of natural causes at the Institution's Health Centre.

Mr. Girardot, 52, had been serving a sentence of five years and three months since May 2005 for sexual assault, trafficking and uttering death threats.

The Sûreté du Québec and Correctional Service of Canada are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death.

- 30 -

For more information, media representatives may contact:

Diane Sauvé
Assistant Warden, Management Services
450-478-5960, extension 8120