MONTREAL - After a two-year inquest and scores of witnesses, the Villanueva family and the Montreal police are still at odds over what happened in that park in Montreal-North in 2008.
The coroner's inquest into the shooting death of 18-year-old Fredy Villanueva ended Thursday at the Montreal court house.
Lillian Villanueva waited two years for her turn to speak at the closing of the coroner's inquest into her son's death.
The grieving mother continues to lay blame solely on Montreal police, and Jean-Loup Lapointe, the officer who fired the shots.
"I demand justice, that this assassin be jailed," she told the inquiry. "It's a shame that he's still a police officer"
The mother of five still describes her son as a harmless victim of racial profiling.
"I'm convinced that if my boy was a white Quebecois, this tragedy would never have taken place," she said, as her supporters applauded inside the court room.
Outside, the head of the Montreal police union faced a hostile crowd as he defended his member's work.
"We are paid to enforce the laws and the rules and this is what Pilotte and Lapointe did, no matter the colour of the people," said Yves Francoeur.
But Villanueva's lawyer insists that the officers should be charged in a criminal court.
Police lawyers are now trying to legally challenge certain aspects of the inquest, which means its conclusions could be months, if not years away.
