“We were all the daughter of a Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu or the father of a Julie Boisvenu. 20 years after the murder of Julie Boisvenu in Sherbrooke (New window)the judicial journalist Isabelle Richer returned to this story which particularly marked her on the show Here the info.
There are victims who are more like us than others. […] When the victim is a woman like Julie Boisvenu, it’s instantaneous, I project myself. The Radio-Canada journalist remembers as if it were yesterday this event which had upset the province, the day before Saint-Jean-Baptiste 2002. She was in her city in Sherbrooke so when she goes out in the middle of the night, at 3 am, she is not terrified to imagine predators on every street corner.
The latter devoted the first season of her podcast My version of the facts to this story. What I say in the podcast is that we often remember the name of the aggressor or the accused, rarely that of the victim, but in cases of murder of a young woman, it is rather the opposite that occurs.
The arrest of the assassin relieved all of Quebec, remembers the journalist. The trial was originally scheduled to take place in Sherbrooke, but was eventually moved to Montreal to ensure the impartiality of the jury.
” To humanize a story is to remember that it makes waves for a long time and that it leaves eternal scars. “
Not only was the journalist marked by this story, but also by its outcome. There has been a very strong and pronounced interest in the status of victims. The actions of Julie Boisvenu’s father, Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, led to the creation of the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights and the creation of the Association of Families of Missing or Murdered Persons. It was major because from there, these families found a kind of asylum, a little cocoon where people find themselves who have suffered the indescribable.
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