Montrealers march to remember femicide victim, 24-year-old Romane Bonnier – Montreal

A couple of hundred individuals marched downtown Saturday afternoon to recollect Romane Bonnier, the 24-year-old girl who was murdered ten days in the past.

The march started outdoors of F.A.C.E college the place Bonnier, or ‘Romy’ as her family members knew her, was a former pupil.

Mates, household and lecturers thought it will be a very good place to recollect the budding singer.

“We determined to begin the march right here and finish on the Rialto Theatre,” stated Anne-Sophie Julien, the organizer of Saturday’s march. “Romane was a performer and artist and it was a means for us and the household to offer her a present. Her final present,” she stated.

Bonnier was killed in broad daylight within the Plateau space on Oct. 19 from a stabbing assault.

Francois Pelletier, 36, was arrested on the scene and stays in custody. Bonnier’s demise is taken into account Quebec’s seventeenth femicide this yr and a case of home violence, in response to police.

The pair had beforehand lived collectively and police had obtained a number of 911 calls associated to an altercation between a person and a lady on the day of her demise.

Those that attended Saturday’s gathering not solely needed to recollect Romy but additionally needed to deliver consideration to the violence she and plenty of different girls have confronted.

“If we haven’t been in a violent state of affairs everyone knows somebody who has been in a single,” says Julien. “I feel it’s time that we get collectively speak about it and make change,” she provides.

Rita Jerumanis, one in every of Romy’s former lecturers at F.A.C.E, says extra must be performed to teach future generations so these incidents don’t should occur.

“Getting individuals extra conscious and welcoming the victims, these struggling by way of violence to return out and speak about it,” says Jerumanis.

A non-public memorial service was additionally held on Saturday within the Mile Finish for family and friends.