chapter 17e 

(The Bomber and the Sister) 

Moïse Berri 

and the Reconstruction of the Haitian 

Space Agency 

by Jude Jarda 

17e 
The Bomber and the Sister 

During this time, in the coffee room of the West Island Operational Center, Lieutenant-Detective Pinheiro and Chief-Inspector Shaughnessy are celebrating the fortuitous arrest of Sprinkling Happy Joey, born Emerson Louis Fournier. The atmosphere in the police department is very festive. The two officers were congratulated by the Deputy Minister of Justice for their remarkable achievement. They got a strawberry and cheese cake, a phone call from City Hall and praises from the Education and Public Safety Ministers. Emerson Louis Fournier is that audacious and reckless student who took pleasure and pride in pelting riot brigade policemen with toy balloons filled with hard fecal material during the 2012 province-wide student protests. The SPVM only had a single and out of focus picture of him, unmasked, in their possession. The service had lost all hope of putting their hands on Sprinkling Happy Joey, a delinquent who reached a near-legend status among the students all over the country and made the authorities look like a bunch of amateurs. 

The charges hanging over the heads of Georgelina and Emerson are quite serious. Failure to assist a person in danger comes first. They should have stayed near Candy during the 911 call, while she was agitated with muscle spasms and overdosing, to follow the nurse’s instructions. Health risks associated with heroin use are very severe, the young adults were told. Leaving the scene of an accident and countless hit and runs will be added to the long list of accusations. Minerva Veriquin's Malibu was involved in many different collisions. Judicial summons to appear before a court for careless driving, causing extended damages to infrastructures belonging to the city of Saint-Basile, to a family own creamery and to a private daycare are almost inevitable. Refusing to obey a direct police order will be added also, because the two transgressors forced the agents to chase them on the 116 at a dangerous speed, putting the lives of a dozen drivers in peril. Finally, Emerson will have to respond to a judge for driving with a license that was suspended for impaired driving six months earlier. One good news: the luminol test confirmed that the red liquid found on the windshield of the Malibu was not human blood. One bad news: a victim of Emerson Fournier's shit bombs was recently promoted to assistant-director, and will probably be among the first lawmen to testify when the trials of the radical students begin in 2013.