{"id":934635,"date":"2026-10-16T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:02:09","slug":"man-arrested-over-murder-of-montreal-federal-worker-who-allegedly-died-during-conference-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934635\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over murder of Montreal federal worker who allegedly died during conference call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 33-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a federal government employee in downtown Montreal last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Youcef Moussaoui was arrested Thursday afternoon in downtown Montreal and is now expected to appear in court Friday to face a charge of first-degree murder, Montreal police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim, Le\u00efla Ben Salem, 45, worked for the Canada Revenue Agency. According to reports at the time, she was participating in a virtual meeting with colleagues when she was <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/suspicious-death-rene-levesque-blvd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">killed on Sept. 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police found her unresponsive inside an apartment building on Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Blvd., near St-Christophe St., following a call requesting a well-being check shortly before 3:30 p.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the killing was not related to domestic violence. Police have also not disclosed a motive, saying it will be made public during court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The killing <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/mark-carney-offers-condolences-in-parliament-to-slain-montreal-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">prompted condolences<\/a> from Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Carney paid tribute to the \u201cesteemed\u201d public servant at the start of Question Period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn behalf of the Government of Canada and, I believe, all the members of this House, I offer our profound condolences to the family, loved ones and colleagues of Ms. Ben Salem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 33-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a federal government employee in downtown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-934635","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\/934635","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=934635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}