DEET 'did not kill' Quebec sisters

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DEET 'did not kill' Quebec sisters

Published: 11 Oct 2012 at 18.13
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A Quebec coroner is challenging the autopsy results from Thai officials which indicated that two Quebec sisters found dead in their hotel room on Phi Phi Island in June were accidentally poisoned.

CBC News reported on Thursday that coroner Renee Roussel told Radio-Canada the concentration of the chemical DEET, a primary ingredient in insect repellent, in the sisters' systems wasn't sufficient to be fatal.

The claim contradicts the conclusion of Thai authorities who performed post-mortems on the bodies of Noemi Belanger, 25, and Audrey Belanger, 20, shortly after the sisters were found on June 15 by hotel staff.

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khunbj
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Discussion 10 : 15 Oct 2012 at 07.5410
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D1 : dickemery .. there is a very good reason that the Phuket police did not investigate the case and that is that Phi Phi is under the jurisdiction of Krabi.
D8 : coolit sorry mate but Thailand appear to be safer than where you are coming from ... been here for more than 20 years and do not know of anybody that have been poisoned.
Many here always moan about the lack out coroners reports when farangs die in Thailand...now we have a Canadian, Quebec Coroner that states that the DEET found in the sisters would not have been sufficient to kill them...but the Coroner does not enlighten us in what the reason for the deaths then was...so it this another poor Coroner or is it only allowed to do "bashing of Thais ?"
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Discussion 9 : 12 Oct 2012 at 03.069
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onlyasking, discussion 4, indeed the Thai police last week claimed that they had closed the case after the parents requested for no further action to be taken. Now the BP claims that "Thai investigators haven't closed the case." As seems standard procedure in Thailand, everything and everyone is contradicting each other - and themselves. Amazing indeed.
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Discussion 8 : 12 Oct 2012 at 01.538
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Fundeena is correct, and it happens over and over agsin and again, do not leave your bottled water in the room open and return and drink it, and do not drink the water or other in the room period, this is a horrible story for these sisters on an innocent holiday, there are no words, if they were poisoned outside, then this happens all the time, on the way to the room, innocent drink offered full of pesticides etc...again it happens often.
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Discussion 7 : 12 Oct 2012 at 01.397
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Some poster a few months ago published a great comparison of the alleged symptoms and documented state of the bodies and with ingesting Methyl Alcohol. Every thing lined up extremely well.
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Discussion 6 : 12 Oct 2012 at 00.146
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Sounds like a Venom that should be detectable by a competent examiner.
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Discussion 5 : 11 Oct 2012 at 23.085
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The family may have asked the police to close the case, but the police - or someone - still needs to find out what happen. The reason is an obvious one - to prevent it from happening again.
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Discussion 4 : 11 Oct 2012 at 22.104
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For once can we please leave this one alone. The parents requested that the reports not to be released. The Thai police closed the case after the parents requested for no further action to be taken. Upon the request the Thai police said its up to the parents or the Canadian embassy to release any further information. If there were any signs that the Thai police tried to cover anything up (in a bad way), do you think the parents and the Canadian embassy would have kept their silence. Lets honour the wish of the parents and refrain from seeking publicity or blaming people. The parents have suffered a great loss. lets not also destroy the only thing they have left, the memories of their children.
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Discussion 3 : 11 Oct 2012 at 20.033
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What is this untraceable 'poison' killing farangs in Thailand and recently in Vietnam? Inquiring farangs want to know.
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Discussion 2 : 11 Oct 2012 at 19.582
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Again the world disagrees with the Thai version of events. Speaks Volumes!!
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Discussion 1 : 11 Oct 2012 at 18.531
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and yet the phuket police have failed to investigate the foteigner man who was last seen with the sisters capture on cctv at the hotel the nite they died ,the police said that he wasnt a suspect in there investigation ?
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