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A senior military officer who was found guilty of nude skating in a public place is facing a fresh charge of assaulting a civilian in Belgium.
Lt.-Col Gary Szczerbaniwicz is scheduled to appear in Toronto for a court martial this month on a charge of assault causing bodily harm.
The Department of National Defence will not release any more details of the incident until the hearing on April 15.
According to the charge sheet for the previous unrelated incident, Szczerbaniwicz skated naked at the Glacier Gardens Arena in Comox, B.C, on Jan. 19, 2001. He was initially charged along with two others with committing an indecent act, but that charge was later dropped.
DEFENCE ACT FINE
He pleaded guilty to a charge of "an act to the prejudice of good order and discipline" under the National Defence Act and was fined $500.
At the time of the first incident, when the trio went streaking on ice after an old-timers hockey tournament, Szczerbaniwicz was the commanding officer of 407 Squadron, which operates the Aurora aircraft maritime patrol well-known for drug and migrant boat surveillance.
Retired colonel and military law expert Michel Drapeau said even though the alleged offence for the current charge took place in Belgium, Drapeau said Canadian military law is "portable" to other countries. Witnesses from Belgium will likely travel to Canada for the court martial, he said
http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2008/04/04/5188536-sun.html
Lt.-Col Gary Szczerbaniwicz is scheduled to appear in Toronto for a court martial this month on a charge of assault causing bodily harm.
The Department of National Defence will not release any more details of the incident until the hearing on April 15.
According to the charge sheet for the previous unrelated incident, Szczerbaniwicz skated naked at the Glacier Gardens Arena in Comox, B.C, on Jan. 19, 2001. He was initially charged along with two others with committing an indecent act, but that charge was later dropped.
DEFENCE ACT FINE
He pleaded guilty to a charge of "an act to the prejudice of good order and discipline" under the National Defence Act and was fined $500.
At the time of the first incident, when the trio went streaking on ice after an old-timers hockey tournament, Szczerbaniwicz was the commanding officer of 407 Squadron, which operates the Aurora aircraft maritime patrol well-known for drug and migrant boat surveillance.
Retired colonel and military law expert Michel Drapeau said even though the alleged offence for the current charge took place in Belgium, Drapeau said Canadian military law is "portable" to other countries. Witnesses from Belgium will likely travel to Canada for the court martial, he said
http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2008/04/04/5188536-sun.html