If it wasn’t so serious, the escape of those three drug bosses from Orsainville Prison could be a comedy. It now been revealed that the day before that green chopper landed inside the prison courtyard, the three convicts were given relaxed security which permitted them to remove the handcuffs they had been ordered to wear. Yves Denis, Denis Lefebvre and Serge Pomerleau escaped from the detention centre in suburban Quebec City on Saturday evening. The “questionable” decision to relax security has rocked Quebec and shaken the new Liberal government. Deputy Premier Lise Theriault was peppered on the subject for more than 30 minutes in the National Assembly. She was asked several times by interim Parti Quebecois leader Stephane Bedard why the government did not appeal the judge’s decision.
