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In early July 2018, Sébastien Théodore took to his Facebook page to post a video to his friends and followers.

In rambling sentences, Théodore explained how, to him, all provincial and municipal authority figures are “de-facto” and operating illegally.

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This applies to police officers, prosecutors and judges, he said. He called them pieces of garbage and “dirty cockroaches.”

Then he issued a warning: if police officers tried to pull him over for driving with a suspended licence, he had no intention of stopping.

“If something happens, they will have been warned,” he said. “And if there’s a joker who starts shooting, it won’t end well. If you want to stop me, you’ll have to kill me.”

The video, Quebec Court Judge Pierre Labelle ruled on Tuesday, was a preview to the “immense tragedy that was Nov. 17, 2018.”