LETTER to the Editor of The Gazette (Montreal): Shocking decision by parole board

Emil Lazarian 2019
The Gazette (Montreal)
Saturday
LETTER
Shocking decision by parole board
 
 
Re: "Man who killed neighbour, child in 1992 granted full parole" (Montreal Gazette, July 11) I'm disgusted that a man convicted of murdering Bercuhi Leylekoglu and her two-yearold daughter in 1992 is to be released on full parole.
 
Denis Paulet told police he had a deep resentment of immigrants, and he hatched the plan with his motherin-law to kill his Armenian neighbour so he could steal from her apartment while her husband was away.
 
Now he is on his way to becoming a free man, after the parole board noted his "advanced age" and that he had attained "the fixed objectives" while living at a halfway house.
 
What kind of a society are we living in when a premeditated murder is committed and the person who is found guilty becomes a free man because he has got older? What kind of hellish life has he inflicted for all these years, and years to come, on the husband of the victim and their other children? The parole board members should rethink their decision.
 
Murat Mike Hacikyaner
 Montreal

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS