The Montrealer who had stabbed her ex-groove in the street in the street in Montreal to death was not suffering from a mental illness, concluded the jury to the great satisfaction of the parents of the young murdered young woman.
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“We are especially glad that it will not happen to someone else, that’s the most important thing. It was a long process, an event, but it’s over, “said Guy Bonnier, this Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse.
A few minutes earlier, this father was seated in the courtroom with his spouse Jasmine Lebeau, a few meters from François Pelletier, the assassin of his daughter Romane Bonnier. Only a wall and window separated them.
Then, the jury entered the room, envelope in hand. After more than a month of trial and three full days of deliberation, the verdict was going to be returned.
“Toped with first degree murder,” said the president of the jury solemnly.
By these few words, the fate of the 39 -year -old assassin was sealed: he will receive life prison, without the possibility of parole before having served at least 25 years of penitentiary.
Despite this, Pelletier remained of marble, looking straight ahead.
The assassin François Pelletier, guilty of the premeditated murder of Romane Bonnier, a young Montreal artist.
Photo taken from François Pelletier’s facebook
Extreme anger
The murder of Ms. Bonnier, 24, had occurred in October 2021. The young artist who dreamed of playing in musicals had then just won a first professional role.
But her dreams about to come true were destroyed by Pelletier, an ex-obsessive ex-gypsy that she had briefly attended in the past.
Armed with a knife with one hand and a bouquet of flowers in the other, he waited for her to leave her home in order to follow and kill her, while she was walking in the “McGill Ghetto” sector in the city center of the metropolis.
He stabbed her over 20 times, in front of horrified passers -by.
Instagram photo Romane Bonnier was killed on the Mont-Royal set on October 19, 2021. Instagram photo
Romane Bonnier Instagram photo
Not mental health
During the trial, it had been revealed that the assassin and his victim had had a “very brief, but intense” relationship a few months ago, but which had not ended to the satisfaction of Pelletier.
The latter had started to send the young artist to the avalanches of messages. Patience, the young woman replied, but the more time passed, the more she didn’t know what to do.
“You are my last and only chance for love …”, had written the assassin to the young artist, a few months before the murder.
During the trial, Pelletier, who defends himself alone, had tried to plead criminal non-responsibility due to mental disorders.
But my Marianna Ferraro and Louis Bouthillier de la Couronne testified an expert, Dr. Gilles Chamberland, who demolished this theory by raising that Pelletier had acted more by anger.
The jury looked at this theory.
Me Marianna Ferraro de la Couronne, following the verdict of premeditated murder of François Pelletier on July 1, 2025 at the Montreal courthouse. Photo Michaël Nguyen
Photo Michaël Nguyen
Pelletier, who has been detained since the murder, will return to the court in August, so that his sentence is formalized. Ms. Bonnier’s relatives will also be able to testify to the impact that the drama has had on them. But already, they wanted to thank Judge François Dadour for having completed this trial.
“The judge had incredible patience, he was very fair, he applied the law,” said Guy Bonnier. Same for prosecutors [de la Couronne]. »
However, he deplored that a accused suspected of having mental disorders could defend himself. According to him, the state would benefit from looking into the subject.
Jasmine Lebeau and Guy Bonnier, parents of Romane Bonnier, murdered by François Pelletier, following the verdict of murder premeditated on July 1, 2025 at the Montreal courthouse. Photo Michaël Nguyen
Photo Michaël Nguyen
