QUEBEC ELECTION 2012: Pauline Marois was hustled off stage mid victory speech after Montreal Police reportedly arrested a man outside the Metropolis as a potential threat to the premier-elect

MONTREAL - Pauline Marois was hustled off stage mid victory speech after Montreal Police reportedly arrested a man outside the Metropolis as a potential threat to the premier-elect.
Television footage showed what appeared to be a man pinned to the ground by officers and other police examining what looked like a rifle. Footage also showed flames behind the Metropolis.
Marois, Quebec’s premier-elect was rushed by her police body guards from the stage Tuesday night as she was wrapping up her victory speech after her Parti Québécois won the Quebec election with a minority.
The host of the event told the audience a blank had been fired, and people should not be alarmed.
But people began to calmly evacuate the theatre until Marois returned to the microphone and appealed for calm, saying “That is what a woman chief of government does.”
The incident put a damper on what was a noisy, happy celebration of Marois’s victory.
Two people were injured and in critical condition, and one person - 50 years old, was arrested. He shot a couple of shots outside the Metropolis.
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• PQ Party
  Elected: 54
  Leading:0
• LIB Party
  Elected: 50
  Leading:0
• CAQ Party
  Elected: 19
  Leading:0
• QS Party
  Elected: 2
  Leading:0
• ON Party
  Elected: 0
  Leading:0
• GRN Party
  Elected: 0
  Leading:0
• OTH Party
  Elected: 0
  Leading:0

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• PQ: 54
• LIB: 50
• CAQ: 19
• QS: 2
• OTH: 0

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