General acquitted in sex assault case files lawsuit against prime minister and chief of the defence staff
None of the allegations have been tested in court.
In the statement of claim filed Wednesday, Fortin’s legal team alleges that, at the behest of Gen. Eyre as well as “political actors,” the investigation was “rushed, flawed and did not follow the usual or ordinary course of a CFNIS investigation.”Article content The military did a review of Fortin’s case after his acquittal and concluded the major general did not, on a balance of probabilities, commit the alleged sexual assault.
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