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Canadian man stuck in Cuba faces second trial, inspires Montreal protest
CTV News ^ | 12/9/2018 | Staff

Posted on 12/10/2018 9:14:10 AM PST by simpson96

Protesters gathered outside a Cuban tourism office in Montreal to support a father who’s been stuck in Cuba for over a year — and faces a second trial on Monday for his involvement in a fatal boating accident.

During a family trip to Cuba in July 2017, Montreal resident Toufik Benhamiche was driving a boat that veered out of control and killed an Ontario woman. He was charged and convicted of criminal negligence causing death.

Benhamiche was released from custody after both his conviction and his four-year prison sentence were overturned by Cuba’s top court.

“It was fantastic news for me. And at that time, I felt the nightmare was finishing,” Benhamiche told CTV Montreal from Cuba.

He and his lawyer have alleged that he was given very little direction on how to operate the boat.

But even though his conviction was overturned last summer, Benhamiche was not allowed to go home. On Monday, he will be tried again for criminal negligence, after a second trial was ordered.

On Sunday, more than 50 protesters gathered in Montreal to demand the Canadian and Cuban governments do more to get him home.(snip)

Benhamiche’s wife, Kahina Bensaadi, told CTV Montreal that the situation has been “very difficult.” Although her husband isn’t in jail, she said it’s like he is in one.

“It’s like if you’re in jail if you can’t work, you can’t see your family, you can’t kiss your two daughters every night,” she said, adding that she doesn’t trust the system in Cuba.

“It’s the same judges who ignored the law a year-and-a-half before,” Bensaadi said. “It's completely unrealistic. They ignore everything. We feel we are in the middle ages.”

She said she’s been forced to send him money to pay for the Cuban apartment he’s been staying in.

(Excerpt) Read more at ctvnews.ca ...


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1 posted on 12/10/2018 9:14:10 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

In the majority of countries in the world prosecutors can retry people on the same charges over and over.

We’re fairly unique in that we don’t allow for this kind of thing.


2 posted on 12/10/2018 9:18:41 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: simpson96

What a moron. When you’re in a foreign country, especially one like Cuba, you pay a local to drive the boat. And the car, bus, rickshaw, whatever.


3 posted on 12/10/2018 9:20:27 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: simpson96

Poor guy didn’t pay off the right people.


4 posted on 12/10/2018 9:20:52 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: simpson96

Canadians love Cuba because their dollar goes so far,
because labor is so cheap,
because Cuband are dirt-ass poor.
Canadians call it “a successful socialist country,”
“such delightful people... Great people...”
“The service is wonderful...”
Canadians - self-righteous, opportunistic -
delight in the condition of the rats groveling for a dollar at their feet,
whilst praising “progressive” Cuba.


5 posted on 12/10/2018 9:21:16 AM PST by golux
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To: simpson96

“He and his lawyer have alleged that he was given very little direction on how to operate the boat.”

If you don’t know how to drive the boat, don’t drive the boat.

Someone might get killed due to your negligence.


6 posted on 12/10/2018 9:27:05 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: golux

This ^^^^

Course this applies to ‘liberal’ Canucks - not all of them.


7 posted on 12/10/2018 9:27:17 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: TheTimeOfMan
"Canadians love Cuba because their dollar goes so far, because labor is so cheap, because Cuband are dirt-ass poor. Canadians call it “a successful socialist country,” “such delightful people... Great people...” “The service is wonderful...” Canadians - self-righteous, opportunistic - delight in the condition of the rats groveling for a dollar at their feet, whilst praising “progressive” Cuba."

This ^^^^

8 posted on 12/10/2018 9:28:06 AM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Blue House Sue

“...alleged that he was given very little direction on how to operate the boat.”

“Yes, I was driving the boat when it hit that guy and killed him. No, on one forced me to drive the boat... but...but...it’s somebody else’s fault!”

Geez.


9 posted on 12/10/2018 9:31:03 AM PST by simpson96
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To: MeganC

We most certainly do.


10 posted on 12/10/2018 9:31:37 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: simpson96

‘no one’, not ‘on one’.


11 posted on 12/10/2018 9:31:45 AM PST by simpson96
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“Toufik Benhamiche”

Canadian? By birth? Naturalized? Illegal?


12 posted on 12/10/2018 9:32:54 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: simpson96

Drunk Canadian killed woman with his boat? I’ll wait around for a better political prisoner to support. What’s the argument? That he should be released to go home?


13 posted on 12/10/2018 9:34:18 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: MeganC

Europe and the former colonies of Europe, as well as most of the middle east, Use the Napoleanic Code as the basis of their legal system. In criminal matters, you are guilty until proven innocent. Sounds like the current progressices and the media would like to see it implemented here.


14 posted on 12/10/2018 9:37:48 AM PST by Waverunner (I'd like to welcome our new overlords, say hello to my little friend)
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To: golux

I know some Canadians who have been there, and they didn’t seem the least bit impressed.


15 posted on 12/10/2018 9:39:08 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: simpson96

A North African in Cuba? They can keep him.


16 posted on 12/10/2018 9:39:25 AM PST by Amberdawn
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Based on the article, a “Canadian” with an awfully religion of pieces name, murdered a Canadian woman due to HIS criminal negligence [blaming someone else for not teaching you to drive a small boat isn’t a defense, it’s a confession]. The victim is dead. He has been inconvenienced and rent an apartment. Boo hoo. The jerk is suing the travel agency for $340,000 for letting him kill someone. But I’m surprised the Cubans haven’t let him go altogether — lest tourist loons stay away.


17 posted on 12/10/2018 9:44:50 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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There’s something disgusting about people who go to a third world Hell Hole to gawk at those being crushed under the foot of a totalitarian. There’s something even more disgusting when that person has fled a situation where the ayatollahs were doing the same to them.


18 posted on 12/10/2018 9:55:23 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: simpson96

Cuba = Come U Be Arrested


19 posted on 12/10/2018 10:23:08 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: golux

Amen and $crew any of them who end up on the wrong side of a Communist country’s non judicial system!:

Canadians love Cuba because their dollar goes so far,
because labor is so cheap,
because Cubans are dirt-ass poor.
Canadians call it “a successful socialist country,”
“such delightful people... Great people...”
“The service is wonderful...”
Canadians - self-righteous, opportunistic -
delight in the condition of the rats groveling for a dollar at their feet,
whilst praising “progressive” Cuba.


20 posted on 12/10/2018 11:03:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Why are the libs suddenly in love with our fired AG, and want to protect him?)
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