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《死亡与米粉》
加拿大《Hour Magazine》记者 Linda Gyulai 报道（1997年8月18日。英语原文附后）
这是一个男子的故事，他声称一次在免费法律诊所的咨询彻底毁了他的一生。
两年前，潘振国（Zhen Guo Pan）和妻子及女儿一起住在蒙特利尔科特德内日（Côte-des-Neiges）的一间公寓里。作为1987年从上海移民至加拿大的华人，潘先生在一家受欢迎的泰国餐厅担任厨师，梦想有朝一日能开设自己的生意。
然而，1995年12月，妻子意外去世，加上随后他在市中心YWCA（基督教女青年会）免费法律诊所的法律咨询经历，使他的生活从此分崩离析。
在这个难以分辨谁可信的年代，这个故事迅速演变为一连串控诉、警方报告、以及一场关于餐馆所有权的民事诉讼。
截止至本月，潘先生在1995年与前律师恩萨·马图切利（Enza Martuccelli）在YWCA的接触，已成为蒙特利尔地区卫生与社会服务局的正式调查对象。该机构资助包括YWCA在内的社区组织。潘先生提出申诉后，卫生局于8月11日致函YWCA，要求其在30天内提供与此案相关的文件和信息。
潘先生的案件曾提交至多个权力机构，包括蒙特利尔联合警政局（MUC police）、魁北克律师公会、人民申诉专员办公室（Protecteur du Citoyen）以及时任加拿大总理让·克雷蒂安的办公室。
如今，饱受抑郁困扰的潘先生常年出入蒙特利尔犹太总医院精神病房。他不断写信给一切可能帮助他的人。
潘先生表示，妻子去世后不久，他请马图切利协助他收购一家名为“Sawatdee”的餐厅（如今位于蒙特利尔旧城区）。但自此之后，他不但失去了对该餐馆的控制权，还损失了2万美元的积蓄。
马图切利与其合作伙伴何卿锐（Qing Rui He）则声称，潘先生违反了三人合伙经营餐馆的口头承诺，并表示自己在餐厅中也投入了费用。
“我们才是受害者，”马图切利辩称，“去年我吃尽苦头，我的搭档也是。我们付出了真正的人力。”
马图切利与何卿锐就餐厅所有权及40万美元赔偿向潘先生提起民事诉讼，但尚未开审。潘先生尚未就此诉讼作出回应。
马图切利声称潘先生仍可作为合伙人之一参与餐厅经营，但他宁愿坐在一旁抱怨。
潘先生否认上述指控。近几个月，他在家与犹太医院精神病房之间往返，努力治疗抑郁症。他曾梦想经营Sawatdee餐厅，如今却被马图切利与何卿锐控制。
“我已经受不了了，”潘先生说。他记录了这段经历，每天都像是死亡般煎熬：“我已经一无所有。”
他在一篇日记中写道：“我们像其他人一样来到加拿大，怀着梦想、满怀希望地努力工作……转眼十年，我们从未度假，从未奢侈消费，只为存钱创业。”
事情是如何发展至此的？一切始于1995年11月。
当时，潘先生的妻子作为YWCA志愿者外派工作，在第一天就从楼梯跌落，头部撞击水泥地板，后于12月8日在医院去世。
在妻子去世前几天，潘先生到YWCA寻求法律帮助，希望医院继续对其妻进行治疗。
“我希望他们像对待普通病人那样继续救治她。我表达不清楚，于是想请律师帮我。”
YWCA将他介绍给马图切利——一位因挪用客户资金而被吊销执照16个月（1994年4月到1995年10月）的前律师。据魁北克律师公会的艾莉丝·杜吕德（Elise Dulude）确认，她在此之前还曾四度被停权。
当潘先生与马图切利会面时，她正在YWCA的法律诊所担任“社区服务人员”，该职位是其因交通违规而被判社区服务的执行内容之一。
潘先生坚称，YWCA和马图切利从未告知其她并非正式律师。
马图切利则表示，她明确告诉潘自己不是律师，并推荐他去她曾任职的律师事务所。潘则称，她推荐该律所的理由是他“需要一家大律所来处理其妻的案件”。
YWCA传播主管卡罗尔·拉瓦莱（Carole Lavallee）表示，这起投诉是该诊所自1976年成立以来“首例”。“我们每年服务1000人，所有宣传中都注明，我们只提供法律信息，而非法律代理。”
她解释称，法律顾问需有法律学位，但不一定是律师公会成员。“潘先生被告知我们不能替他准备法院文件，并被明确告知她只是法律顾问。”
她补充说，马图切利也被告知不能代表客户出庭、签署文件或开启任何法律程序。“如果他们之后有商业合作，那我们并不知情。”
她还表示，YWCA通常会向律师公会核实志愿者背景，“以确保没有严重问题”。至于为何马图切利的吊销记录未被发现？她答道：“她来我们这之前吊销期已结束。”
马图切利承认，她曾在被除名后代表客户出庭一次并因此被罚款。
与此同时，马图切利还面临10项欺诈和伪造文件的指控。警方诈骗科警探埃米尔·比赛永（Emile Bisaillon）称：“这来自几位不同投诉人。”法庭记录显示，她未出席5月的听证会。
“我们正在寻找她——如果你看到她，请通知我们。”
马图切利回应称，她“从未收到法院传票，因此不是恶意缺席”。“我已经去法院，将案件重新排上日程，准备于8月28日出庭，撤销逮捕令并提出无罪辩护。”
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附记：
Linda Gyulai 女士是当时《Hour Magazine》的记者，如今任职于《Montreal Gazette》。她是潘振国先生接触的所有加拿大媒体中，唯一回应并实地采访并调查此案的记者。她曾亲访蒙特利尔犹太医院精神病房，独立完成本报道。由于《Hour》杂志预算有限，她未获得经费支持，仍坚持完成调查采访。
更多详细故事请参考潘振国先生发布于华人社区网站的原文《告加国及海外华人同胞声援请求书》。
（中文附后)
Two short years ago, Zhen Guo Pan lived with his wife and daughter in a Cote-des-Neiges apartment. Pan a native of Shanghai who came to Montreal in 1987, worked as a chef at a popular Thai restaurant, hoping to one day earn enough money to open his own business. But after his wife’s accidental death in December 1995 and a subsequent consultation at the downtown YWCA `s free legal clinic with a former lawyer with a history of disbarment and other legal problems, Pan’s life started to unravel.
In an age when it’s tough to know who to trust, this is a nightmarish story that has degenerated into a mess of accusations, police reports and, most recently, an impending civil trial over ownership of a restaurant.
And, as of this month, Pan’s encounter with ex-lawyer Enza Martuccelli at the Women’s Y in 1995 is the subject of an investigation by Montreal’s Regional Health and Social Services Board, the body that funds community organizations like the YWCA after Pan filed a complaint, the regional health board wrote the YWCA Aug.11, giving it 30 days to forward documents and other information relative to the case.
Pan’s story has floated across the desks of several authorities, from the MUC police to the Quebec Bar, the Protecteur du Citoyen and even the office of Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Pan, often confined to a room in the psychiatric wing of a Montreal hospital these days, fires off letters to whomever he figures might help.
Pan says that some time after his wife died he brought in Martuccelli to help him acquire Sawatdee restaurant (now located in old Montreal). Since then, he says, he has lost control of the restaurant and$20,000 in life savings
Martuccelli and a partner, Qing Rui He, claim Pan reneged on what was a promised three way split of the restaurant business. They also claim they are out of pocket for expenses in the business.
“We are the victims,” Martuccelli claims, “I suffered last year like you would not imagine. My partner suffered. We have worked in human hours.”
Martuccelli and He’s civil suit against Pan over ownership of the restaurant and $ 4000,000 in compensation has yet to go to trial Among other reasons, Pan hasn’t responded to the suit.
Martuccelli says Pan is welcome to come down to the restaurant and participate as a one third partner in the business. She says Pan prefers to sit and gripe, however.
Pan denies Martuccelli’s charges. Over the past few months, he has shuttled between his home and a sparsely furnished room in the Jewish General Hospital’s psychiatric ward as he deals with depression. Restaurant Sawatdee- the dream business of a Chinese immigrant who says he never went to a lawyer prior to his wife’s death-is now operated by Martuccelli and He.
“I cannot stand it anymore,” says Pan, who keeps a journal with typed installments of his ordeal” Every day is killing me. I have nothing left.”
“We came into Canada, same like other people, we had dreams, we work so hard with our hope…, ”reads an undated journal excerpt. ”Ten years have passed from the date we came into Canada. We never take vacation, we never buy expensive stud, we tried to make more savings until one day we can start some business.”
How did things go so wrong? The answer begins at the YWCA on Rene-Levesque W. In November 1995, Pan’s wife started work as a YWCA volunteer at an Ontario explains. On her first day, she fell down a set of stairs and hit her head on a cement floor. She died in hospital Dec.8 that year.
In the days preceding her death, Pan visited the Y seeking help in dealing with his wife’s doctors. “ I wanted them to continue treatment for her like any other patient,” he says. “ I couldn’t say the words strong enough so I wanted a lawyer.”
The YWCA referred him to Martuccelli, a former lawyer who was disbarred for misappropriation of a client’s funds for 16 months between April 1994 and October 1995. And suspended from the Quebec Bar Association four times before that for unpaid fees, confirms Elise Dulude of the Quebec Bar. Martuccelli has new replied for reinstatement Dulude adds.
When Pan met Martuccelli she was working at the Y’s legal clinic as part of a community vice program: the job was part of her sentence for a conviction related to unpaid traffic tickets.
Pan insists that Martuccelli and the YWCA never told him Martuccelli wasn’t a lawyer.
For her part, Martuccelli said she told Pan she wasn’t a lawyer when he sought her advice at the clinic, and even referred him to the law firm she had previously worked for. Pan says Martuccelli made the referral because she told him he needed a large law firm to work on his wife’s case.
Carole Lavallee, director of communications for the YWCA says Pan’s complaint is “the very first” since the legal clinic opened in 1976. “We serve 1,000 people year. It’s [mentioned] every when in our publicity for the legal clinic that we’re only there to give out information and we’re and lawyers.”
The advisors are required to possess a law degree but aren’t required to be members of the Bar, Lavallee explains. “ He [Pan] was told we can’t do any report sanitation for him in court. He was told clearly she’s a legal advisor.” Likewise, Lavallee adds, Martuccelli was told that she can’t represent clients in court sign papers or set anything in motion legally. “If they had business arrangement after this we’re not aware of anything.”
Lavallee says the Y checks its legal volunteers with the Quebec Bar to make sure “there nothing major.” But the little matter of Martuccelli’s disbarment? Lavallee says she’s not whether it was brought to the organization’s attention.” Her disbarment was over by the time she came here.”
Martuccelli was fined once representing a client in municipal court when she was no longer a member of the bar, a fact Martuccelli confirmed.
At the same time, Martuccelli faces 10 charges of fraud and issuing faise documents, chargers based on what Lt-Det. Emile Bisaillon of the MUC police fraud squad calls “a few complaints from different people. Bisaillon says court records; show Martuccelli didn’t attend her May hearing.
“We’re looking for her-if you find her, tell us,” Bisaillon told Hour last week.
Martuccelli can be found her restaurant. Martuccelli insisted she was never served with the papers, “so I did not fail to appear.”
“I went to court and I put the case back on the roll so that I can appear before a judge on Thursday [Aug. 28], have the rant quashed and plead not guilty.”
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