The daughter of a well-known MNA was a no-show for the first of several trials concerning events that took place during the student protests of 2012.
Yalda Machouf-Khadir faces a litany of charges in connection with her role in the student protests, during which she is accused of having vandalized and occupied a minister's office, assaulted a photographer and a police officer, and blocked the Jacques Cartier and the Champlain bridges.
Her lawyer, Pierre Poupart, said that Machouf-Khadir wished to plead guilty to the charges of vandalizing CEGEP Vieux Montreal, actions which led to the first of her several arrests in the spring of 2012.
However the judge and prosecutor Martin Chalifour were disappointed that Machouf-Khadir did not attend the court hearing.
Regardless the court accepted the plea, and the agreement that sentencing be delayed until March 2014, when Machouf-Khadir is expecting to plead guilty to other, more serious charges.
"There was an agreement between the parties to settle the case and to postpone the [hearing] on sentencing to another date becuse Ms. Khadir has other trials to go to which are more serious. so it was okay to postpone everything to have a global view," said Chalifour.
At one point Machouf-Khadir spent five nights in jail before being granted bail under the condition she respect a 10 p.m. curfew and stay away from all government buildings including schools.
The curfew, called "abusive" by her father MNA Amir Khadir, was later suspended so that Machouf-Khadir could join her family on a summer vacation.
Machouf-Khadir is also one of six people being sued by the Université de Montreal for $100,000 in damages after dozens of rooms on its campus were vandalized on April 12, 2012.
