Mark Bourque

{{Short description|Retired Canadian police officer killed in Haiti}}

{{Infobox person | name = Mark Bourque

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| title = Sergeant, Retired
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

| birth_date = 1948

| birth_place = Stoneham, Quebec

| death_date = {{death date|2005|12|20|mf=y}}

| death_place = Cité Soleil, Haiti

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Mark Bourque was a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer killed while working for the United Nations in Cité Soleil, Haiti on Tuesday, December 20, 2005.

RCMP career

Prior to his mission in Haiti, Bourque had been an RCMP officer for approximately 35 years. He was stationed in the province of Quebec, where he started work in Granby and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu before moving on to Montreal. During his career, he was most noted for his work in money laundering. In 1986, he became heavily involved in a case involving the alleged Mafia crime family Cuntrera-Caruana, headed by Alfonso Caruana, from Siculiana,{{cite journal |url=http://www.tni.org/archives/tblick/aruba.htm |title=The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba |first=Tom |last=Blickman |journal=Transnational Organized Crime |volume=3 |issue=2 |date=Summer 1997 |location=Sicily}} which lasted for several years. According to CTV News, "At the time, money-laundering laws were non-existent in Canada. However, Bourque's work pushed the Canadian government to put money-laundering provisions into the Criminal Code."{{cite news |title=UN to probe Bourque's shooting death |url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051222/bourque_update_051222/20051222?hub=Canada |access-date=28 December 2005 |work=www.ctv.ca |date=22 December 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311003648/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051222/bourque_update_051222/20051222?hub=Canada |archive-date=11 March 2007 |language=en |url-status=dead}} Bourque retired from the RCMP in 2002.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311003719/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051220/rcmp_death_051221/20051221?hub=CTVNewsAt11 "Bourque's murder probably failed kidnap attempt"], CTV.ca, December 21, 2005
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311003648/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051222/bourque_update_051222/20051222?hub=Canada "UN to probe Bourque's shooting death"], CTV.ca, December 22, 2005
"[https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ottawa-demands-answers-in-death-of-canadian-peacekeeper-in-haiti-1.529356 Ottawa demands answers in death of Canadian peacekeeper in Haiti]", CBC News, December 21, 2005
[http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/13460225.htm "Slain U.N. peacekeeper from Canada honored"], Associated Press / The Mercury News, December 21, 2005
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311044305/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=fb6da79c-a103-4b01-b62b-593524fb276c&k=84693 Cop who toppled heroin network slain in Port-au-Prince]", by William Marsden, The Gazette, December 21, 2005

Category:1948 births

Category:2005 deaths

Category:Canadian people murdered abroad

Category:Deaths by firearm in Haiti

Category:People murdered in Haiti

Category:Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers