A leader of the Paradan rebels in the episode Whispers, present at the secret meeting on Parada II where the replicant of Miles O'Brien is shot and the truth is explained.
Coutu is a Paradan rebel who appears at the end of the second-season episode Whispers. The Paradan government and the rebels are about to hold peace talks on Deep Space 9, and Miles O'Brien has been preparing security for the conference.
The episode follows an O'Brien who believes everyone on the station has turned against him and flees to Parada II, where he finds Benjamin Sisko and Kira Nerys meeting the rebels. One of Coutu's men shoots him, and a second O'Brien then steps out from behind a door.
Coutu explains that his informants had learned the government abducted the real chief and sent a replicant in his place, programmed to carry out an assassination at the talks without knowing what it was. The rebels warned Starfleet and rescued the original.