CBC News ·
There are still nights when June Celik wakes up crying, wishing she hadn’t called police on her son Koray.
On March 6, 2017, he was acting in a way she had never seen before. The 28-year-old was intoxicated: he had mixed alcohol and percocets prescribed to him because of dental pain.
Koray tried taking his parent’s car. June was desperate to stop him; she called Montreal police for help.
That night, four police officers entered Koray’s home and, after a brief verbal exchange, tried to detain him.
From the hallway, June and her husband, Cesur, watched as their son was kicked, choked and beaten with batons until his body lay still, and then until his breathing stopped.
The family has been living in grief ever since. The living room of their Île Bizard home is a shrine to their dead son.
“I’ve heard the description hell on earth,” said Cesur Celik, sitting on a couch not far from where he saw officers unsuccessfully administer CPR.
“But I didn’t know that it could happen. And really, this is hell on earth. Every day.”
Earlier this month, Quebec’s prosecution service announced charges will not be laid against the police officers who were present that night two years ago.
Koray died, they said, either from a pre-existing heart condition or from the mix of drugs and alcohol in his system.
The death was investigated by Quebec’s police watchdog, the Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes.
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