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PUBLIC ASSEMBLY!

organized by the JUSTICE FOR ANASCOALITION

we demand access to all information regarding Mohamed Anas Bennis'death, a Public Inquiry into the events of December 1st 2005, and anend to police brutality and impunity.


Voluntary contribution
refreshments will be served

wheelchair accessible
whisper translation (English/French)
on-site childcare available - please call 24 hours in advance(514-342-2111)

• Khadija Bennis, thesister of Anas Bennis who was killed by Montreal police officer Bernierof Station 25 on December 1st 2005, on the corner of Kent andCôte-Des-Neiges.
• Huguette Milberg, fromMothers United Against Racism, a group of women struggling against theracial profiling of their children by the Montreal police.
• Hind Charkaoui, thesister of Adil Charkaoui who was incarcerated for two years based on aSecurity Certificate, and who is still struggling against the system ofSecurity Certificates and deportation to torture.
• May Chiu, one of thecommissioners from the People’s Commission on Immigration SecurityMeasures.
• a member of Kabataang, aPhilippino youth organization.
• a documentary film about the case of Anas Bennis

A Killing and a Cover-Up:
The Case of Mohamed Anas Bennis

On December 1st 2005, on the corner of Kent and Côte-des-Neiges,Montreal police officer Bernier from Station 25 shot and killed MohamedAnas Bennis, a 25-year old Canadian of Moroccan heritage, while in thepresence of three other police officers from the same Station.

More than one year later, the events of that morning remain shrouded inmystery. Both the police and the Quebec government have refused to handover evidence and information related to Anas’ death. “We feel like weare being lied to, that they are hiding things from us,” says KhadijaBennis, Anas’ twin sister and a member of the Justice For AnasCoalition.

This veil of secrecy, the government’s callous disregard for Anas’smourning family and their quest for justice, the incredible policeimpunity... all this should be familiar by now. Just think: theSecurity Certificates; the secret trials; the deportations to torture;the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) harassment ofrefugees and immigrants; the long list of racialized people, bothcitizens and non-citizens alike, who have been brutalized and evenkilled by the police without the Canadian State so much as batting aneye, the five hundred Indigenous women who have disappeared without anyreal investigation ever being carried out... the list just goes on andon.

In a context of criminalization and marginalization of racializedcommunities across Canada, in a climate of ongoing systematic attacksagainst the oppressed, and in an era when the rhetoric of a “war onterror” serves as an excuse to give more and more power to the policeand other repressive institutions, this Public Assembly is a forum todiscuss the impact of racial profiling and police brutality and toexplore the different ways that we can resist against police abuse.

WE DEMAND

• the immediate release of all reports, evidence and informationconcerning the death of Anas Bennis to the Bennis family and to thepublic;
• a full, public and independent inquiry into the death of AnasBennis;
• an end to police brutality and impunity.

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The flier for this event isavailable for download

• bilingual version, 2 pages (you can do a two-sided photocopy, cutit down the middle and then have both French and English fliers) - 6.2 M inuncompressed pdf format or in azipfile 1.6 M
  
• French version - 3.2 M inuncompressed pdf format or ina zipfile 802 K
  
• English version - 3 M inuncompressed pdf format orin a zipfile 726 K

One can also download all threepdfs in one zipfile.

The Justice for Anas Coalition
514.342.2111
justicepouranas@gmail.com