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A Radio-Canada reporter has been arrested for alleged criminal harassment while pursuing the subject of a story.

According to Radio-Canada, reporter Antoine Trépanier was arrested Tuesday night by Gatineau police. He was released on a promise to appear in court.

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Trépanier was called by Gatineau police Tuesday evening and an officer requested that he come to the station, said Radio-Canada’s director of French services for Ottawa-Gatineau Yvan Cloutier.

Trépanier went with two of his managers and was present for approximately five to 10 minutes wherein police informed him that a complaint of criminal harassment had been made against him and asked that he sign a promise to appear in court.

Trépanier was reporting on Outaouais Big Brothers and Big Sisters executive director Yvonne Dubé, who was once admonished by an Ontario court for practising law when she wasn’t a lawyer. The charitable organization that now employs her was kept in the dark about her past, Trépanier reported.