One of Quebec’s 10 most wanted criminals was arrested in Hungary on Tuesday
Posted September 6, 2024 8:52 am.
Provincial police (SQ) announced Thursday the arrest in Hungary of one of Quebec’s 10 most wanted criminals, who escaped from a minimum-security federal detention centre in May.
The SQ said Yacine Zouaoui, 32, was arrested Tuesday in Budapest, Hungary, and that extradition proceedings were underway to bring him back to Canada and bring him to trial for escape.
Zouaoui, who was serving a sentence for second-degree murder and assault causing bodily harm, was reported missing from the Montée Saint-François federal institution in Laval on May 23.
He was convicted of the fatal stabbing of a 43-year-old man in Burnaby, B.C., in 2011.
The SQ indicates that his arrest in Budapest was possible “thanks to information received from a partner in the last few days,” and with the help of the RCMP, the Correctional Service of Canada, Interpol, and the Canada Border Services Agency.
The Correctional Service said it was investigating Zouaoui’s escape from the Laval institution alongside the SQ.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
