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A Montreal police officer suspended without pay from the force pleaded guilty to stealing a protester’s iPhone and importing drugs on Monday.

Amir El Alfy, 35, sat impassively in the courtroom following the guilty plea and listened as wiretap recordings of himself speaking to various friends and a former girlfriend were played for the judge. On the recordings, El Alfy is heard repeatedly bragging about having picked up a new iPhone 4S during a tuition-hike protest in the tumultuous spring of 2012.

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He and other officers had been called to then-premier Jean Charest’s office on McGill College Ave. after a group of student protesters cornered Charest and his bodyguards, the court heard.

“We were kicking the s–t out of these f—ers,” El Alfy says in one expletive-filled conversation with a friend, adding that amid the tussle he spotted the phone on the ground.

“So I see a phone on the floor … it probably (belonged to) one of those f—ers trying to film (the police response).”