An inmate housed directly across from Soleiman Faqiri the day he died said guards starting beating Faqiri “as hard as they could” as soon as they were out of view of the hallway camera.
John Thibeault made that statement to Ontario Provincial Police in the months after he spoke exclusively to CBC’s The Fifth Estate, saying he felt compelled to come forward in the hope of justice for Faqiri’s family.
“That’s when the beating started,” Thibeault told the investigator in the interview room. “They all started laying into him as hard as they could and it was vicious.
“I’ve never seen nothing like
