Quebec Coroner Calls for More Domestic Violence Resources After Murder of Family

Published on June 12, 2024

A Quebec coroner is calling on the provincial government to improve services for domestic violence victims in her report on a murder case involving a man who strangled his wife and two sons in 2019. Coroner Andrée Kronström said the relationship between Dahia Khellaf and Nabil Yssaad was marked by an escalating pattern of domestic violence since the two were joined in an arranged marriage in 2012. The report examined the killings of Ms. Khellaf, 42, and her sons, Adam, 4, and Aksil, 2, as well as the Dec. 10, 2019, suicide of Mr. Yssaad, who strangled his family in their Montreal home before driving to a hospital and jumping to his death from a sixth-floor window....

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