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Justice for Anas:
Solidarity in court and rally this Thursday, January 21st, 2010!
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SOLIDARITY IN COURT
9:00AM - 4:30PM, Thursday January 21st, 2010
Palais de Justice, 10 St-Antoine E.
Champs-de-Mars metro
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RALLY
12:30PM, Thursday January 21st, 2010
Palais de Justice, 1 Notre-Dame E.
Champs-de-Mars metro
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The Justice for Anas Coalition recently learned that the hearings in the motion of the Montreal Police Brotherhood to cancel the coroner's public inquiry into the death of Mohamed Anas Bennis will resume this Thursday, January 21st, 2010.
We are inviting all supporters and the public to come to the hearings to express our opposition to the Brotherhood's motion and to show our support for the Bennis family in their struggle to discover the truth about the death of Anas, who was killed by a police officer on December 1st, 2005 in Côte-des-Neiges. The hearings will begin at 9:30AM at the Palais de Justice. For the specific room number, ask about the hearings (in the motion of the Fraternité des Policiers et Policières de Montréal (FPPM) in Superior Court) at the main desk on the 3rd floor (ie., Notre-Dame street entrance).
We also invite you to join us at lunchtime to take part in a rally at 12:30PM in front of the Palais de Justice, at 1 Notre-Dame East (Champs-de-Mars metro). This will be our last chance to make ourselves heard before judge Claude Champagne who will ultimately decide if the coroner's public inquiry will proceed or not.
On June 29th and 30th, 2009, the lawyers of the Montreal police, the Montreal Police Brotherhood as well as the cities of Montreal and Quebec made their arguments to prevent the coroner’s inquiry from taking place. As shocking as it may seem, the lawyer of the city of Montreal, Pierre-Yves Boisvert is taking the side of the officers, and against the Bennis family and the public! The lawyer of the Quebec coroner's office is the only governmental representative who is defending the importance of respecting the coroner’s decision to call for an inquiry in this case. On January 21st, 2010, judge Champagne will hear the arguments of Alain Arsenault, lawyer of the Bennis family.
For the past four years, the family is waiting to receive answers to their questions. If the police have nothing to hide, then why are they doing everything they can to prevent the coroner’s inquiry from proceeding? While the Brotherhood is saying that the public inquiry is "useless", let's make ourselves heard loud and clear that the Bennis family and the public have a right at least to the truth, if not to justice!