A public inquest into the events surrounding the 2020 killing of two young Quebec girls by their father begins today.
Quebec's public security minister ordered the inquest last year after an episode of the Radio-Canada investigative program "Enquete" alleged provincial police made errors in the search for the missing girls and presented new evidence that had not been part of a coroner's investigation into their deaths.
An October 2021 coroner's report found flaws in police's handling of the investigation and recommended changes to the process for triggering Amber Alerts, as well as the creation of a dedicated police unit to investigate children's disappearances across the province. The girls and their father vanished after their car was involved in a serious crash on Highway 20 in St-Apollinaire southwest of Quebec City, on July 8, 2020, just before 9:30 p.m.
The disappearance triggered an intense 10-day manhunt that gripped the province and especially the town of just over 6,000 people where it played out.The girls' bodies were found in the woods on July 11, but the coroner concluded the deaths likely occurred on the afternoon of July 9.
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