Trial begins for accused in 2022 Montreal-area triple homicide [Video]

A South Shore woman accused of murdering her wife and the couple’s children was in court today for the beginning of the trial.

The accused faces two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder.

The victims were Synthia Bussière and her two children, five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac. The three were found dead on the 12th floor at 8320 St-Laurent Blvd. in Brossard shortly after midnight in September 2022.

Bussieres’ partner and father of their two children, Mohamad Al Boullouz, was arrested and charged with triple murder.

In the prisoner’s box, Al Ballouz sported a long, dirty blond wig, manicured red fingernails, wore a woman’s blazer and wished to be identified as a woman named Levana. The accused doesn’t have a lawyer.

Crown prosecutor Laurence Lamoureux said the accused would be identified as a man during the trial, because that’s how witnesses identified Al Boullouz before his …