Sixteen months after the murder of 15-year-old Meriem Boundaoui, investigators at the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal (SPVM) arrested the suspect on Monday morning, a crime that has provoked public outrage. Press.
Released at 12:58 p.m.
Updated at 2:02 p.m.
Saleem Duibi, 26, has already been detained for another offense and is being held at the Rivière-des-Prairies Detention Center.
He will be charged in the first-degree murder of Meriem Boundaoui in Montreal court on Monday afternoon. He is also accused of attempting to kill four other people who were at the scene at the time of the crime.
A few days ago, in another case, Duip pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm without a permit and violating the order. His sentence is to be announced later. In the same case, he was acquitted of charges of forcible imprisonment, theft and use of a firearm.
In 2020, Saleem Tuibi was sentenced to 24 months in prison for possessing another weapon, but had to serve five months because of the time spent in pre-trial detention.
Touaibi has a history of drug trafficking since 2017, for which he was sentenced to 90 days in prison.
An innocent kills
Meriem Boundaoui, an Algerian who was in Montreal to study and lived with her sister in La Prairie, was shot dead on February 7, 2021. He was 16 the next month.
At the time of the crime, he was with a friend who was traveling in an immovable car in the bakery’s parking lot at Rue Jean-Dalon in Petit McRae, Saint-Leonard.
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Three shells hit the head of a 15-year-old girl through the window of the car in which Meriem Boundaoui was riding.
According to the information we received, the young man who went with the teenager was talking to other youths when a car with two people went near the group standing near the vehicle and opened fire in its direction.
One of the young men standing near the vehicle was injured, but the young woman sitting in the car was hit by shells and died instantly.
After this crime, which shocked the public, the SPVM’s top criminal investigators launched a major investigation into which they did not spare any expense. This investigation is still ongoing.
According to sources, Dwivedi was driving the vehicle used during the murder. The vehicle we were trying to destroy would have been discovered by investigators.
Conflict between the two groups
According to our information, the crime was caused by an argument between two groups following a robbery outside Quebec and a clash between two families over a parking issue.
After the murder, relatives of the victim said the suspects were known in the area.
One year after the tragedy, last February, relatives and friends of Meriem Boundaoui’s family commemorated her death, saying they hoped justice would be done.
“It was a long investigation and investigators worked very hard to gather evidence. Meriem Boundaoui had nothing to do with it. She was an innocent victim of a crime she should never have committed. I am very happy,” he said. Press Sylvain Caron, the former SPVM leader, was still in office when the trial began.
SPVM key criminal investigators are determined to clarify the murder of Thomas Trudeau, who was killed in a riot in the north of the city last November, and the murder of another teenager last year.
According to our information, the main premise that the police want for this crime is always “ Beating That is, the suspects may have randomly selected a victim in the territory of the opposing group to send a message.
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