Aucune accusation pour l'assassin de Fredy Villanueva
Aucune accusation ne sera portée contre le policier qui a tiré sur Fredy Villanueva dans un parc de l'arrondissement Montréal-Nord au mois d'août dernier, puisqu'aucune infraction criminelle n'a été commise.
Le directeur aux poursuites criminelles et pénales, Louis Dionne, a confirmé cette information, lundi soir, au palais de justice de Montréal. Auparavant, le procureur de la Couronne, François Brière, avait longuement décrit le déroulement des faits.
La décision a été prise après une enquête de sept semaines menée par la Sûreté du Québec et une étude du dossier qui aura duré deux mois.
Fredy Villanueva est mort à l'âge de 18 ans le 9 août dernier, dans un parc de l'arrondissement Montréal-Nord, quand un policier a fait feu sur trois garçons qui s'étaient rués sur son collègue.
Selon le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, les agents voulaient arrêter un individu recherché qu'ils venaient de repérer, mais avaient plutôt été encerclés par une vingtaine de jeunes.
La mort de Fredy Villanueva a provoqué de violentes émeutes dans l'arrondissement Montréal-Nord, dans la nuit du 10 au 11 août.
La famille Villanueva n'a pas encore commenté la décision de ne pas porter d'accusations criminelles.
Une enquête publique
Par ailleurs, plus tard en soirée, le ministre de la Sécurité publique, Jacques Dupuis, a annoncé la tenue d'une enquête publique.
Tout en prenant note de la décision de ne pas porter d'accusations criminelles, le ministre Dupuis a dit qu'il désirait qu'une telle enquête soit tenue afin que « soient révélées au public toutes les circonstances de cet événement ».
Elle sera conduite par le juge Robert Sansfaçon de la Cour du Québec. Le criminaliste François Daviault l'assistera comme procureur indépendant. Il aura pour tâche de faire entendre devant le juge Sansfaçon tous les témoins qui ont été interrogés par la Sûreté du Québec.
Le maire de Montréal, Gérald Tremblay, a également pris la parole pour rappeler qu'il souhaite que la population de l'arrondissement de Montréal-Nord soit rassurée.
This is a horrible shame, but what upset me even more was the spin the media put on the murder last augest while refering to the riots. They states that the youth and minorities were rebeling against the system. When in reality people of all ages and ethnic backrounds met thier breaking point. Yes there is a lot of crime in Montreal north, Yes gangs are present, but in no way does that mean very person under the age of 25 are members. This same type of opression has occured countless times through out history, Ireland the 19th century, lower Canada 18th century, and though both on a very larger scale. All the police did by aquiting the officer who killed Fredy Villanueva, is put a face on the harasment and malpractices that the Montreal police are famous for. They turned a kid into a maryter, when his only crime was hanging out in a park. My consolences to both the family and community.
The media, and other industrialists, are owned by the same people who have interests in partisan political parties, they join forces with these parties to protect their own interests. It is their interest to put the police, their protectors, in a good light and to lay blame on "trouble-makers".
Too much propaganda in our world. It's all about control.
Look at what is going on in our beloved (sic) parliament today, the Prime Minister (Harper) - who has no respect for the institution of our government, is taking control (the country will be governed by fiat) unitlaterally - resulting in total control for his party. Sounds like the police, doesn't it? They make the decisions and no part of their brotherhood (doesn't matter whether they are municipal or provincial police, they are all members of the same extended botherhood) will do anything to displease the rest.
One thing that is scary and worth mention; As I film in the streets I have an opportunity to hear many things. No suprise. But something which has become almost thematic since Fredy Villaneuva's murder, and is in my experience on the increase, is talk of assasinating police officers. This is madness and would only really result in the then justified paranoia on the part of the police, and as we all know there's nothing more dangerous than someone with a deep paranoia complex. It would be better for us all if this sort of talk were to be curbed but I fear the only solution will be for the police, and the governments, to come clean and do the right thing = stop the institutionalized corruption. Don't hold your breath.
Avalon hit it on the head, "This is a horrible shame." People need to start thinking hard about what kind of world we want to live in, about truth in justice (is there any?).
And some people actually wonder why there are those among us who willingly opt out of the rat-race.
The process of making Taste Your Freedom is changing my life, changing who I am, by helping me to realize that I am not alone, that there is a large portion of the population who have deep misgivings about the state of society and that my views have never been so extreme as many others who have had me think. My understanding of people, my brothers and sisters, in the streets has matured greatly - I was always a bit of a street-rat, err, sewer-rat as you might prefer - and even though my pre-existing knowledge was good (I had no misconceptions) there was still so much more to experience in the film's making. Hell, some of you are becoming friends and even extended family. I'm trying to say that I understand why so many of you are either unable or refuse to deal with the liars and cons who come on as credible but are no more than manipulators of some sort.
All these authority figures have one thing in common; to coin a film term, "They are messengers sent by grocery clerks." Time for society to demand we speak with the organ-grinders, no more monkeys and messengers.
I'll sum it up with a slogan I originally only saw downtown but have recently witnessed numerous times in the West-island and on various internet spaces; "Police partout - Justice nul-part!"
TYF
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