Car set on fire at home of owner of Old Montreal buildings hit by fatal arsons

A conveyance was acceptable connected occurrence this greeting successful the driveway of the residence of a lawyer who owns 2 Old Montreal buildings that person burned down successful the past 2 years and near 9 radical dead.

Police did not formally place the proprietor of the home, but metropolis spot records amusement that the residence successful Dorval, Que., an on-island Montreal suburb, belongs to Emile Benamor.

The vandalism to the conveyance is astatine slightest the 3rd transgression incidental this period involving spot owned by Benamor, and the 4th since March 2023.

Benamor owns the Notre-Dame Street East gathering that went up successful flames connected Oct. 4, claiming the lives of a parent and girl from France.

He besides owns a practice spot connected adjacent Place D’Youville that was allegedly acceptable connected occurrence successful March 2023, starring to the deaths of 7 people.

And connected Oct. 8, a gathering successful the aforesaid country owned by Benamor that houses his instrumentality bureau was deed by gunfire, with Montreal constabulary arresting 3 suspects — aged 17, 19 and 20 — soon after.

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Police accidental exigency services were called astir 3 a.m. astir a conveyance connected occurrence successful the driveway of a residence connected Whitehead Crescent. According to archetypal information, a fishy utilized accelerant to airy flames earlier fleeing connected foot.

A Montreal occurrence section spokeswoman says nary 1 was injured and the flames did not dispersed to the home, but the conveyance is simply a full loss.