Inmate beaten to death in Montreal Detention Centre

A jury in its 11th day of deliberation emerged on Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse with verdicts in the case involving the death of an inmate at the Montreal Detention Centre two years ago.

The jury found Tarik Biji guilty of second-degree murder in the death of fellow inmate Michel Barrette, a he‎roin addict who had just smuggled tobacco into the detention centre days before he was beaten to death on June 21, 2016.

Two other inmates who took part in the beating — Garmy Guerrier and Jason Côté — were convicted of manslaughter. All three men were also convicted of aggravated assault.

[chrisfegan]

The fact that they are allowed to move about so freely is insane. Kind of defies the whole purpose of being in jail.

[elvisdamjanovic]

Imagine dying like that. All alone while the people that beat you to death and congratulating eachother. People are literally sick in their heads and it’s getting worse and worse

[Bjaerkai]

I see died hours later. So he was bleeding out internally for hours and he could be saved but they(guards) didn't even tried to get him a medical attention. What a disgusting world

[chuckbrewer]

It's weird how we as a society just accept that when your freedom is taken away and you go to jail, sometimes for completely non violent crimes, your personal safety is forfeited along with your freedom. Go to jail for smoking pot in your own home and you could end up getting stabbed or beaten to death because you sat at the wrong table, or used the wrong phone or accepted a bag of chips not knowing by doing so you were pledging allegiance to a particular group

[billjones]

"Yeah, high five guys! We really beat that guy to death in a 10 v 1 over some cigarettes! We're tough!"

[sanfordwillis]

I was always told, "It can be very dangerous when a group of cowards stick together."

[Coppertunes]

Yes, let's high five and congratulate ourselves, that was a hard tough fight, the 20 of us against this one man. How did we all manage to get out in one piece.

[flyb]

My heart hurts for this no one deserves to die this way

[westfalenstadion]

It took a group of men to attack a lone man by himself

[benpottsbeats]

The last act of manhood this poor man showed was getting himself to his feet after suffering such massive internal injury and walking to his cell to die. He was more of a man this day than anyone in this video combined. Let that sink in..

[Romanian]

He suffered a fractured skull, several fractures to his ribs and one of his lungs was punctured twice... cant believe he got up.. r.i.p 🙏🏻

[Brahbrahbrah]

Those guards now need to be prosecuted and imprisoned too just like they deserve. That was disgustingly sad especially seeing him limp off back to his cell to die. I hope those cowards rot in jail for the rest of their lives and in hell for eternity after that

[fatgoose]

Imagine your life being so pathetic that you kill someone over tobacco..
How sad.

[aitnobetafaq]

Good thing the security was there to keep the inmates safe....

[emmanuelking]

Beyond disturbing and horrifying. The way they celebrated after savagely beating that man, shows they have no soul, zero humanity, they are psychopaths, they are influenced by dark forces and should never be released from prison.

[davidemmet]

The inmates who murdered him should get death penalty

[Kri]

So 10 guys beat on 1 guy for 20 min and he managed to walk back to his cell? I understand he passed and that is tragic, senseless. But this man was the GOAT for walking back. All of those men couldn’t put you down. RIP.

[SunRaeeeee]

Why are they allowed to roam about so freely in and out of each others cells in the first place?? This looks more like a locker room rather than a jail

[KingdomeBleachers]

Life in prison is not justice. It allows for things like this to perpetuate. Justice is swift.

[marketwizard]

The fact that they were all smiling n shaking hands afterwards it’s just sickening