François Pelletier found guilty of the premeditated murder of Romane Bonnier

François Pelletier was found guilty of the premeditated murder of Romane Bonnier. Consequently, his ex-girlfriend, whom he murdered in the street in October 2021.

This is the conclusion to which the jury arrived. Nevertheless, which undertook its fourth day of deliberations, at the Montreal courthouse, 1^is July 2025.

François Pelletier was accused of first degree murder. Nevertheless, He received a lifetime prison sentence, without the possibility of parole before having served at least 25 years of penitentiary.

The jury thus recognized the version of the crown. Meanwhile, which demonstrated that the accused had premeditated his gesture, and rejected that of Pelletier, who maintained that he was to Kill the 24 -year -old young woman.

Present at the courthouse, the victim’s parents said satisfied verdict, even if it was a long process.

We are glad that it will not happen to someone else..

Justice was made, in our opinion, in this casesaid Marianna Ferraro, procure of the crown.

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Mr. Pelletier made his own defense. Two Friends of the Court – Independent lawyers – had been appointed by judge François Dadour. who chairs the trial, to assist him.

The feminicide. which françois pelletier found guilty premeditated took place in the middle of the afternoon in front of witnesses, had been captured by passers-by and surveillance cameras.

François Pelletier had a brief affair with the victim. whom he met by becoming his roommate, before killing him a month after their breakup.

That day. he followed her to her house when she came home from work before giving her around twenty stab wounds on Aylmer Street, very close to rue Milton, in the borough of the Plateau-Mont-Royal.

Romane Bonnier succumbed to his injuries in the hospital a few hours later.

This feminicide had marked the spirits. so that a march had been organized in memory of the victim and against the violence against women.

With the information from Aimée Lemieux