La ville de Québec a connu zéro meurtre en 2007
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Quebec City murder free
Toronto homicides on track for a 20-year-high
Marianne White, CanWest News Service
Published: Saturday, December 29 2007
QUEBEC – While Toronto is facing a 20-year high murder rate and other Canadian cities such as Winnipeg and Montreal are plagued by homicides and gun violence, Quebec City is poised to turn the calendar on a murder-free year.
It has already actually been more than a year since the last homicide was reported on Oct. 31, 2006.
“We are keeping our fingers crossed and hope we can finish the year without a murder,” Jean-Sebastien Roy, of the Quebec municipal police, said Friday. He added the number of attempted murders also dropped from 12 in 2006 to 8 in 2007.
The city has always been known for its low crime rate and it has the lowest homicide rate in the country (1.2 per 100,000 people) according to a recent report by Statistics Canada. Every year, an average six or seven people are murdered in Quebec City. But the last time the city went a year without a homicide was in 1962.
In comparison, there were 16 murders in Ottawa last year and there have been 14 since the beginning of the year. In Winnipeg, there have been 26 murders to date, which is three more than all of last year, and in Montreal 39 people have been murdered in 2007, a number slightly below last year’s toll.
Source : http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=336d9dff-b307-4c45-b310-7373d98e0e88
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