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  BATHURST, N.B. -- A coroner's inquest in northern New Brunswick is recommending that plainclothes police officers and their unmarked vehicles be easier to identify during interventions. The five-member coroner's jury released its recommendations Thursday following an investigation into the police-involved killing of Michel Vienneau on Jan. 12, 2015. Vienneau was shot and killed by Bathurst, N.B., police after they responded to an erroneous Crime Stoppers tip suggesting the 51-year-old businessman and his wife were smuggling drugs into the province. As the plainclothes police officers...

Sutton said what he remembered hearing was something like, "Stop, stop, don't move, stay right there." At first, he said, he didn't realize the men surrounding Vienneau's car with guns drawn were police.  "I actually thought it was some kind of gang war or something," he said. One of the people was "pretty rough-looking," said Sutton. Sutton turned away briefly to put some distance between himself and what seemed a dangerous situation. Then his fellow engineer called his name so he looked back and saw Vienneau's white car "slewing" toward the other side of the road. It was zigzagging becaus...

The next thing she knew, she said, it seemed like they were being accosted by terrorists. Two men with firearms got out of a vehicle in front of them. She saw no indication they were police officers and she heard a gunshot. Based on previous testimony, those men were Const. Patrick Bulger and Const. Mathieu Boudreau. Basque said Vienneau pushed her head down under the dash and told her to get down. She felt the car turning left and told Vienneau to step on it. Annick Basque, Michel Vienneau’s former common-law spouse, leaves the coroner’s inquest Friday morning in Beresford, N.B. (Pascal ...

Il croyait au départ qu’il s’agissait d’une confrontation entre individus ou gangs criminels.

Posted: Apr 28, 2021 8:15 PM AT | Last Updated: April 28 The Via Rail train station in Bathurst was cordoned off for a week following the January 2015 shooting death of Michel Vienneau.(Bridget Yard/CBC) The second day of the Michel Vienneau coroner's inquest in Beresford heard from several police officers, including the two most directly involved in the fatal confrontation with him at the Bathurst train station in January, 2015. Cst. Mathieu Boudreau and Cst. Patrick Bulger are both currently on patrol duty with the Bathurst police force. But at the time they were with an integrated unit gat...