A family has gone on vacation with the father's body in the car and could go to prison – 14/04/2019

The Flag family of Canada took a vacation in Miami, Florida, but did not fly but decided to go by car. But the rest has turned into a horror movie.

After spending several days on the beach, they started the tour. Fernand, the father, started to feel bad at the beginning of the trip and died at the top of the car after a cardiac arrest. However, his wife and son, far from stopping and asking for help, decided to continue driving.

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A police officer at the border crossing between Hemmingford, Quebec and Mooers, New York, forced them to stop. There, he asked the son who was driving to pbad a routine inspection of the vehicle.

What less imagined man is that he would find nothing more and nothing less than with a corpse. "It's the first time we see anything like this," TVA's Jean-Pierre Fortin, head of the union's immigration and customs officials told TVA.

An ambulance arrived a few minutes later and certified the death of Fernand. The doctors did not find any signs of violence in the body, but several clues allowed them to know that he had died at least a day before. They are still waiting for the results of the autopsy.

The wife and son were interrogated for hours. According to Fernand's wife, they did not decide to take her to the hospital when he started to decompensate because of high medical cost on American soil and the bureaucratic procedures they should have followed to repatriate the body.

"We have already told everything we know about the police," said Drapeau's son in the newspaper Le Journal de Montréal. Both parents could face, among other things, negligence and transfer of body in unauthorized vehicle. Meanwhile, the customs officer who found the body in the back seat benefited from a few days off and may seek psychological support.

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