Parents of man killed by Montreal police in 2017 call for case to be reopened

The household of a Quebec antheral killed by constabulary successful 2017 is calling connected the province’s justness curate to bid an autarkic probe aft the Crown declined to complaint the officers involved.

Koray Kevin Celik’s parents issued their petition Monday astatine a quality conference, a time earlier a Montreal police morals proceeding for immoderate of the officers progressive successful his decease is acceptable to begin.

On March 6, 2017, Celik’s parents called constabulary to their location successful occidental Montreal due to the fact that they were disquieted helium would thrust portion intoxicated.

Police tried to subdue Celik with force, and his parents accidental they witnessed officers repeatedly bushed their lad with their feet and knees earlier the unarmed antheral stopped breathing and was successful cardiorespiratory arrest. He was pronounced dormant successful hospital.

A coroner’s inquest into Celik’s decease recovered that officers “provoked” the convulsive altercation betwixt them and Celik, and that they were unprepared erstwhile they showed up astatine the household home.

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Celik’s parents — June Tyler and Cesur Celik — person antecedently asked Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette to reopen the case, but helium has truthful acold refused.

The household continues to denounce the probe by the province’s constabulary watchdog — Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes — and the determination by prosecutors not to laic charges. A Quebec tribunal ruling sided with the household — that the watchdog had committed a responsibility by issuing a connection that lone gave the constabulary officers’ mentation of events. The ruling was upheld connected appeal.

The Celiks were joined astatine the quality league by their lawyers, a civilian rights radical and an anti-police-brutality organization.