The coroner blames the police work

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Thierry Leroux

Magalie Lapointe

Monday, 25 September 2017, 14:21

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The father of Thierry LeRoux, police officer shot and killed in Lac-Simon, by a suicidal man, is shocked and discouraged to the coroner’s report that points the finger at the work of his son without issue recommendations.

February 13, 2016, Thierry LeRoux and his partner received a call about shots that would have been heard in a residence on the street Papatie, in the reserve of Lac-Simon, near Val-d’or in the Abitibi region.

Eight-minute intervention will be enough for Joseph Anthony Papatie, 22 years old, take away the life of a police officer of 26 years and commits suicide then with his hunting rifle.

“Thierry is dead by his fault. This is exactly what the coroner said. There is no recommendation for change “, launched in anger, the father of the policeman, Michel LeRoux.

The agent LeRoux, who worked in the Abitibi region in the last six months knew very well the man in distress. Papatie, was known to police for their disorders and suicidal for records of violence. His weapons had been seized during a hospitalization.

The irony of fate has willed that the September 3, 2015, five months prior to his death, Thierry Leroux gives himself the arms of his murderer.

“Improvised” and ” fast “

“This man has a history since 2009. There are tips that I do not understand. It is as if we had given the car keys to someone hot. The CNESST (standards Commission, equity, health and safety, labour) has never talked about weapons in her report nor the DPCP ( Director of criminal and penal prosecutions), and then, it is a slap in the face (with the coroner’s report), ” said Mr. LeRoux.

“Fast-paced Action, without planning… The police have not established a role for everyone nor game plan. It seems that there has been a certain amount of improvisation during the response. According to the report, the action of the police officer is not in accordance with the teachings of the École nationale de police du Québec. “one can read in the coroner’s report Jean-François Lécuyer.

Mr. LeRoux says that his son died for nothing. “Now, I hope that the police will stand, and that the population is going to react. We want what the police in Quebec ? If you pull on the danger you get put in jail and is accused of manslaughter and if it is expected to draw, people tell us that we had forgotten a comma in the manual of police, ” concluded Michel LeRoux.