{"id":934941,"date":"2026-10-16T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934941\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:02:20","slug":"33-year-old-man-arrested-for-allegedly-murdering-montreal-woman-during-video-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934941\/","title":{"rendered":"33-year-old man arrested for allegedly murdering Montreal woman during video call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SPVM arrested a\u00a033-year-old man in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old woman who was killed at her home in downtown Montreal while she was on a virtual call with a colleague last month.<\/p>\n<p>Yousef Moussaoui was arrested Thursday afternoon in Ville-Marie and is expected to appear at the Montreal courthouse Friday, where he will face a first-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the case is not related to intimate-partner violence and evidence gathered during the investigation, including the alleged motive, will be made public during court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Le\u00efla Ben Salem was found unresponsive inside an apartment on Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Boulevard near Saint-Christophe Street on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were called around 3:25 p.m. for a welfare check. Ben Salem was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The SPVM say the case is the 19th homicide on their territory this year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this event \u2013 that has not yet been shared with police \u2013 is asked to contact 911 or their local police station.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous and confidential tips can also be provided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infocrimemontreal.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Info-Crime Montr\u00e9al<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792137740_95_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SPVM arrested a\u00a033-year-old man in connection with the murder of a 45-year-old woman who was killed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-934941","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\/934941","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=934941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}