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Gatineau police arrested three teenagers early Thursday in connection with a fire that severely damaged a canteen operated by soup kitchen last year.
Aged 15, 16 and 17, the three Gatineau teens are facing arson and trespassing charges. Due to their ages, their identities are withheld and they were released with a court date to be set.
Police said public assistance played a major role in their investigation.
On June 9, 2013 a suspicious fire broke out in a mobile canteen operated by La Soupière de l’amitié on Boulevard de la Cité in Gatineau.
Damages were in the thousands of dollars and its operations were shut down for several months.
The canteen was a major source of income for the soup kitchen, which for nearly 30 years has served hot lunches to the underprivileged for $1 daily, while providing free breakfasts for underprivileged kids in Gatineau primary schools.
It serves around 160,000 meals every year.
The organization was facing an accumulation of debt over the past several years and announced June 13 it would go bankrupt.
But businesswoman Huguette Koller, a co-owner of Otto’s Subaru in Westboro and the president of the organization’s board of directors from 1986 until 2011, offered the soup kitchen a massive donation June 16.
She offered the organization $600,000, more than covering its $532,000 in debt, and repurchased the two buildings and an empty lot where it held its operations, valued at more than $1.6 million combined.
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Aged 15, 16 and 17, the three Gatineau teens are facing arson and trespassing charges. Due to their ages, their identities are withheld and they were released with a court date to be set.
Police said public assistance played a major role in their investigation.
On June 9, 2013 a suspicious fire broke out in a mobile canteen operated by La Soupière de l’amitié on Boulevard de la Cité in Gatineau.
Damages were in the thousands of dollars and its operations were shut down for several months.
The canteen was a major source of income for the soup kitchen, which for nearly 30 years has served hot lunches to the underprivileged for $1 daily, while providing free breakfasts for underprivileged kids in Gatineau primary schools.
It serves around 160,000 meals every year.
The organization was facing an accumulation of debt over the past several years and announced June 13 it would go bankrupt.
But businesswoman Huguette Koller, a co-owner of Otto’s Subaru in Westboro and the president of the organization’s board of directors from 1986 until 2011, offered the soup kitchen a massive donation June 16.
She offered the organization $600,000, more than covering its $532,000 in debt, and repurchased the two buildings and an empty lot where it held its operations, valued at more than $1.6 million combined.
msmith@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/mariedanielles
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