A petition has been started by the friends and family of Michel Vienneau – the Tracadie, N.B. man killed at a Bathurst train station in January 2015 – asking the province’s attorney general to have the two Bathurst police officers responsible for the shooting stand trial.
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Const. Mathieu Boudreau and Const. Patrick Bulger were charged with manslaughter but the charges were dropped last month after Judge Anne Dugas-Horsman ruled that the prosecution failed to make their case after a preliminary hearing.
“Right now, that decision, or that non-decision to go to trial, means that we have two justice systems, one for the police and one for the civil,” said Camille McLaughlin, a friend of Vienneau’s.
Almost 750 people have signed the petition which will be delivered on March 20th to the office of Tracadie-Sheila MLA Serge Roussel, “to ask him to have the authorization to have a trial here to resolve the issue.”
“It’s not only for the family, the petition, it’s for everybody who believes in justice,” McLaughlin said.
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In a statement, the government told Global News that the Public Prosecution Service, which is independent from government, is currently reviewing the file.
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