A 21-year-old man arrested recently for his alleged role in the assault and robbery of an Uber driver in Montreal is scheduled to have a bail hearing Tuesday after one of his co-accused was rejected for a release.
Hakim Baidlyam, a Montreal resident, is scheduled to appear before a judge at the Montreal courthouse Tuesday morning in a case involving the armed robbery of an Uber driver after 6 a.m. on Dec. 28. The driver had been hired to take four passengers from a hotel on Park Ave. to an address in Verdun. However, as he approached the hotel he was advised to pick up the four people at a nearby gas station instead.
At one point during the ride, the driver suspected the people weren’t going to pay him for the ride and confronted them about it. The four young men assaulted the driver with their fists and with a bottle of whisky and decided to rob him as well.
The men fled before police arrived, but the driver was later able to pick out his assailants when police showed him photo lineups of suspects.
Baidlyam was arrested on Jan. 5 and the man alleged to be the leader in the robbery, Walid Meddane, 22, also a Montreal resident, turned himself in to police that same day after being informed that a warrant had been issued for his arrest.
According to Lapresse, Meddane was denied bail on Friday following a hearing before a Quebec Court judge. The judge was informed Meddane was on probation at the time he allegedly assaulted the driver and Meddane had described himself in the past as a member of a Montreal street gang on his Facebook page.
The two other suspects arrested are minors who were charged at Montreal’s Youth Court.
