Charles Marion’s grandson, Alexandre Marion, asked for a public apology from the Sûreté du Québec on Friday evening, otherwise the family wants to go to court.
• Also read: Gala Les Olivier: “Let’s share the stage!” Says Michel Barrette
Mr. Marion, guest of Stéphan Bureau on the program “Le monde à l’envers”, returned briefly to the longest kidnapping in Canadian history, in which his grandfather Charles Marion was held hostage for 82 days in 1977. Eventually, he committed suicide in 1999 when he and his family were accused of being behind the kidnapping for ransom.
Finally, Alexandre Marion revealed on Friday night that the family had received evidence through a request for information that the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) knew that Charles and his family were innocent but had continued to foment the contrary thesis.
They are therefore demanding a posthumous public apology from the police, otherwise they are ready to go to court.
The document in question would prove, on the one hand, that when the father, Pierre Marion, had been subjected to a lie detector, the latter had revealed the family’s innocence, but the public statement of the SQ would have said the opposite of the moment.
The family would also have received the information through a letter, after which the SQ had asked Pierre to meet him to confess that they knew he and his father Charles were innocent in the case, but had requested a non-disclosure agreement in exchange.
“It’s not the public’s fault, it’s not the media’s fault that relies on the police, it’s the police’s fault,” Mr Marion assured.
The grandson therefore accuses the SQ of lying, assuming that she would have done so in the absence of further charges in this case.
“We don’t want to take them to court, but if necessary we will go there,” he added, saying he wasn’t worried about his statements and the possible consequences that might follow.