{"id":540669,"date":"2026-03-16T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:53:08","slug":"no-charges-three-years-after-old-montreal-building-fire-kills-seven-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540669\/","title":{"rendered":"No charges three years after Old Montreal building fire kills seven people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 It\u2019s the three-year anniversary of a building fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people \u2014 and there are still no charges.<\/p>\n<p>Both the prosecutor\u2019s office and Montreal police say the criminal investigation is ongoing and they are working to have information for the public as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>The fire ripped through a heritage building on March 16, 2023, killing seven people, six of whom had been staying in illegal short-term rentals.<\/p>\n<p>Police have said that traces of an accelerant were found at the scene and could explain how the fire spread so quickly through the building.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents in an unrelated case have identified as a suspect Denis B\u00e9gin, who is currently serving a life sentence for a 1993 murder.<\/p>\n<p>The documents from Correctional Service Canada cite Montreal police testimony alleging that B\u00e9gin was filmed by a surveillance camera in the area around the building before and after the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 It\u2019s the three-year anniversary of a building fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-540669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}