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Montreal police ordered to review 2005 fatal shooting
The Montreal police ethics commission has been told to reopen an investigation into a Montreal shooting that killed a 25-year-old man in 2005.
A provincial independent police tribunal issued the order this week instructing the commission to review the case of Mohamed-Anas Bennis.
He was shot dead by a Montreal police officer in front of a mosque in December 2005.
The commission investigated complaints against police that alleged the officer and his partner were negligent when Bennis was shot.
It rejected the allegation as well as a complaint that the initial police investigation was not complete.
Bennis' family filed the complaints against Montreal police after his death.
The officers claimed Bennis was wielding a kitchen knife and stabbed one of them in the leg and neck during a confrontation near a mosque in Côte-des-Neiges.
The commission has 30 days to reopen the investigation.