Murderer Mohamed Al Ballouz, who identifies as a woman since decimating her family, is serving the beginning of her sentence in a men’s penitentiary while she is evaluated. A decision which risks bringing grist to the mill, while the Conservative leader has firmly spoken out on this matter.
Posted at 2:42 p.m.
At the end of an extraordinary trial, Mohamed Al Ballouz, alias Madame Levana Ballouz, was found guilty in mid-December of the murders of his partner Synthia Bussières and their 2 and 5 year old sons. Judge Eric Downs then sentenced this “sadistic” person to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.
A few months before the trial, the murderous father dropped his male identity to identify as a woman. She then changed her appearance to appear feminine, in addition to taking steps to legally change her name. She was then transferred to a provincial women’s prison.
DRAWING BY MARTIN CHAMBERLAND, THE PRESS
Mohamed Al Ballouz, alias Levana Ballouz
“I have the right to be in harmony with my gender identity, in harmony with my body, and in harmony with my sexuality to reflect my person and my gender identity as I see fit,” she said. at trial, even going so far as to describe herself as an exemplary “mother” and a “soccer mom”.
Remember that Mohamed Al Ballouz stabbed his partner around twenty times, before suffocating his two boys with a pillow in September 2022 in Brossard. The murderer then had the nerve, at the trial, to blame her partner Synthia Bussières.
Once sentenced to life in prison, Al Ballouz headed to a federal prison. An internal policy of the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) states that all offenders can be incarcerated, according to their preference, in a male or female institution, regardless of their sex at birth.
For now, Al Ballouz is in a men’s penitentiary to complete an initial evaluation for 60 to 90 days. “This allows us to determine the level of security and the appropriate establishment taking into account the safety of the public, staff and other inmates,” indicates the CSC by email.
Prison authorities can refuse a transfer if “overriding health or safety concerns cannot be resolved.” There is therefore no guarantee that Al Ballouz will continue his sentence in a women’s penitentiary. Moreover, the CSC accepted barely 12 transfer requests out of the 57 requests made from 2017 to 2022.
Just before Christmas, Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre strongly denounced the possibility of Al Ballouz being held in a women’s prison, even though he “claims” to be one.
“I can’t believe I have to say this: but when I’m prime minister, there won’t be any men in women’s prisons. Period,” wrote the conservative leader on the social network X.
Pierre Poilievre then added, calling it “bizarre [weirdo] » corrections’ self-identification policy, as it allows “violent men” to once again attack women in a women’s prison. In English, he used the terms “where they can prey on woman again”.
With Tristan Péloquin, The Press
