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A senior diplomat has been investigated but not charged following a gun incident in Ottawa. Global Affairs won’t identify the diplomat or the country he or she represents.

A heavily redacted document from Global Affairs says police called the department’s protocol office sometime in the period between June and September. A woman had made a “firearms complaint” about her spouse last summer after an unspecified incident with a gun in the couple’s home.

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The spouse is the deputy head of mission at an embassy. Global Affairs doesn’t say whether shots were fired.

The details were released following an access to information request, but the department has a rigid policy of not identifying foreign diplomats or their countries when diplomatic staff break Canadian laws.

There was also another possible gun incident in the diplomatic corps recently.

Police were investigating a noise complaint and possible gunshots near a home belonging to a diplomat, and Global Affairs asked for and received permission for the officers to enter the home and look around inside. The “sole occupant” of the home was the diplomat’s own son.