{"id":808715,"date":"2026-07-17T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T21:49:13","slug":"body-of-man-who-fell-from-pier-in-montreals-old-port-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808715\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of man who fell from pier in Montreal’s Old Port recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal police said on Friday the body of a 36-year-old man who fell into the waters of the Old Port last Sunday has been recovered.<\/p>\n

The identity of the deceased has been confirmed by the coroner as Sarr David Vericain from Laval.<\/p>\n

A 911 call was received at about 6:15 p.m. Thursday reporting the presence of a body floating in the river near Parc Dieppe.<\/p>\n

The Montreal police nautical patrol located the body and Montreal firefighters recovered the remains.<\/p>\n

Montreal police spokesperson Caroline Ch\u00e8vrefils said the body was identified as that of a man who triggered a major search operation <\/a>after he fell into the waters of the Old Port on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Coroner Steeve Poisson was mandated to conduct an investigation, according to the Quebec coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police said on Friday the body of a 36-year-old man who fell into the waters of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-808715","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\/808715","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=808715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}