Montreal-area family says police slow to investigate alleged racial attack | 24CA News
A Montreal-area mom is expressing rage and horror about an alleged racially motivated assault towards her 18-year-old daughter and three different younger ladies.
Lyndia Barthold says the 4 ladies have been sitting in a parked automobile in Terrebonne, north of Montreal, when a person began swinging an axe at a closed window and screaming racial slurs.
She claims Terrebonne police initially didn’t take the case significantly as a result of the victims are black.
“This is a situation that caused me tears every second that I think about it,” Barthold mentioned at a press convention.
The mom and Terrebonne residence proprietor says she’s skilled racism dwelling in Quebec loads of occasions, however by no means something practically as horrific as what her daughter Destiny and her three pals went by way of on the night time of Nov. 21.
“I’ve been feeling really depressed, really sad. I haven’t been feeling like myself,” Destiny mentioned.
Barthold and civil rights group The Red Coalition say Destiny was sitting within the passenger seat of her pal’s automobile within the driveway of Barthold’s residence on de la Matamec Street in Terrebonne.
“Straight out of the pages of a Hollywood horror script, a man in a hoodie and a ski mask brandishing an axe and knife accosted these girls,” mentioned founder and government director of the Red Coalition Joel Debellefeuille.
Berthold says the 4 women froze in horror as the person allegedly hurled threats and racial slurs at them.
“He told them, ‘If you guys don’t go back where you came from, get the hell out of my neighbourhood, I’m going to kill you,” mentioned Berthold.
They declare he all of a sudden began smashing the passenger facet window with an axe.
“They drove off. When they drove off, he was still running after them with the axe and the knife,” the mom mentioned.
Barthold says when she arrived on the scene she known as 911, however that police didn’t appear to take the case as significantly as she anticipated.
“They did not give me their cards, not even a number for me to call to have any follow up. I really had to keep calling, keep trying to call different places,” she recounted.
The women had seen the person enter a house on their avenue. For three weeks, they puzzled in the event that they’d run into him once more.
Berthold says she lastly known as The Red Coalition who wrote a letter to the police and all ranges of presidency, and issues accelerated after that.
“No investigator was appointed to this case until the Red Coalition got involved,” mentioned Alain Babineau, director of racial profiling and public
security for the Red Coalition.
According to the Red Coalition, 10 days after {that a} man in his 50s was arrested. The crown prosecutors advised Global News no costs have but been laid.
Barthold says she’s afraid in her own residence.
“I’m expecting this place to be my peace, you know, but now this is my hell,” she mentioned.
Terrebonne and its police pressure are already going through a civil lawsuit in a racial profiling case. Barthold thinks if the victims have been white, police would have acted quicker.
“I’m pretty sure the same night they would they would have went on a hunt and they would find him, you know?” she mentioned.
Terrebonne police didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The Red Coalition says the household is trying into the potential for submitting a civil lawsuit and a proper human rights criticism.
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