Her family and friends, including her parents, two brothers and twin sister, scheduled a memorial service in the Mile End on Saturday. Two events this weekend finally gave people a more public outlet for their grief and anger over Bonnier’s death.
“This woman could have been me,” another wrote. “We’ll keep listening to you, your voice will stay with us, even if you no longer are.” “Keep singing from wherever you are,” one woman wrote. And people weren’t just watching them but using them as a kind of public memorial. Ten days after her death, one of them had 20,000 views, another 16,000. For the last two weeks, tens of thousands of Quebecers have been mourning a stranger, 24-year-old Romane Bonnier.īonnier, a singer who dreamed of working on the stage, recorded almost 60 videos on her YouTube channel in the past year and a half-covers of famous or not-so-famous songs, often done playfully and with a guitar or ukelele.īefore her fatal stabbing last week near the McGill campus, none of those videos had more than a couple of hundred views.
