(Montreal) The first handler to arrive at the scene of the accident involving Martin Carpentier and his daughters Romy and Norah on July 8, 2020 admits he had difficulty doing his job because the scene was too “contaminated by the multitude of” police and fire brigade, who had already started the search.
Posted at 1:09 p.m
Lia Levesque The Canadian Press
The vehicle involved in the accident on the 20 motorway in Saint-Apollinaire had crossed the median and glided before landing on the other side of the motorway. But there was nobody inside.
Speaking to coroner Luc Malouin on Wednesday, Stéphane Ranger, a dog handler for 10 years, pointed out that there had been “a lot of contamination” at the scene of the crime and that this had harmed the dog, which smelled too many human odors. “There’s knocking everywhere. »
I can’t blame the police and fire department for wanting to save lives; it’s her role, he hastened to tell the coroner.
He advised us to forget the images we’ve all seen on TV of a police officer letting a dog sniff a hood, a piece of clothing. That’s not what the dog needs, he said. He’s looking for a human scent and when he smells too many of them he doesn’t know where to go.