Sebastien Plouffe: Quebec officer suspended 15 days for throwing away piece of victim’s skull [Video]

A Quebec provincial police officer has been suspended for 15 days without pay after throwing part of a young motorcycle accident victim’s skull into a ravine in 2021.

An administrative judge with the police ethics tribunal found that Sgt. Sébastien Plouffe’s misconduct was “inexplicable and unjustifiable,” but nevertheless upheld the sentence that had been jointly recommended by the officer and the ethics board investigator.

An agreed statement of facts included in the decision states that the victim’s mother found a piece of her son’s skull while searching for his cellphone at the site where he had died four days earlier in the province’s Outaouais region.

Plouffe responded to her 911 call and collected the remains, but after being criticized by the mother over police handling of the scene, he drove a few kilometres away and threw the skull part into a ravine. He also later lied on a report of …