This was reported by various media during the course of Wednesday. Along with his wife Louise Lanctôt, Mr. Cossette-Trudel was on trial in the early 1980s for kidnapping and kidnapping James Richard Cross, a British diplomat who had been kidnapped by the FLQ at almost the same time as Pierre Laporte, the Deputy Prime Minister of Quebec, died shortly thereafter.

Born in February 1947 in the town of Shawinigan, the deceased had settled in the Ville Mont-Royal sector when he was just 12 years old. During his studies, he was very active as an activist, notably with the Cégep de Maisonneuve and the syndicate of secondary school students.

He joined the FLQ in the fall of 1969 before taking part in the October 1970 kidnapping of James Richard Cross. He was then exiled from Quebec for many years, specifically to Cuba and France for a total of eight years before returning to Quebec to be judged there.

When he returned to the province in 1978, police arrested Mr. Cossette-Trudel. The latter then pleaded guilty specifically to charges of forcible detention, conspiracy and kidnapping. He was eventually sentenced to two years in prison, less than a day, with strict parole terms of an additional three years.

After being released from prison, the man had started a new career, this time in the world of communications. He has worked primarily in the healthcare sector, most notably at CLSCs and the Health and Social Services Agency of Metropolitan Montreal.

Jacques Cossette-Trudel will also be remembered for directing and writing the documentary series A Silent Revolution, A Popular History of Quebec, which will air on Télé-Québec. He was also selected for the Gémeaux Awards in the early 2000s for his work.

More recently, in 2020, Jacques Cossette-Trudel returned in an interview with Radio-Canada journalist Marc Laurendeau as part of the James Richard Cross kidnapping podcast For living it. He then reported that ex-Felquiste Paul Rose had offered to kill James Cross, allegations later denied by ex-Felquiste Louise Verreault.

The former Felquiste is survived by his two children, Marie-Ange Cossette-Trudel and Alexis Cossette-Trudel, one of the leading figures in the anti-mask movement, known for his conspiratorial positions and also a supporter of the ideology movement. right QAnon.

In October 2020, when Quebec was in the midst of a health crisis, Marie-Ange Cossette-Trudel also signed a testimony on the pages of The press, notably noting that “my family has been under scrutiny from all sides for ages, but only recently”. “A large family full of contradictions like many others, the only difference being that mine is part of the collective narrative framework, right down to textbooks,” she had written.