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A mother's love: Diplomat depletes life savings to free son charged with murder
Published Jan 02, 2018 • Last updated Jan 03, 2018 • 6 minute read
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A Canadian diplomat in a nightmare in Miami spent nearly every cent she had, took out multiple loans and sold her Ottawa house to finance a legal bid to bring her teenage son home after felony murder charges.
Roxanne Dubé’s life changed in March 2015.
It was a crime — and punishment — that shook two cities and thrust Dubé and her family into the spotlight.
Just weeks after her two sons settled into a new life in Miami to join Dubé at her posting as consul general, the teens’ names and faces were splashed across newspapers and television screens. One was dead, the other in jail.
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How the gilded life of a Canadian diplomat's family fell apart in a hail of bullets in Miami
Until their world blew up in a hail of lead, Canadian Consul General Roxanne Dubé and her two teenage boys had lived, however briefly, a gilded life in one of the world’s most iconic sun-splashed cities
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MIAMI, Fla. — Until their world blew up in a hail of lead, Canadian Consul General Roxanne Dubé and her two teenage boys had lived, however briefly, a gilded life in one of the world’s most iconic sun-splashed cities.
It was a life of privilege and opportunity, decorated with swaying palms, bougainvillea blossoms, eternal blue skies, vit beaches, soft pastels and a turquoise ocean that goes on forever. It told of an effortless, brilliant future.
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In new book, former Canadian diplomat Roxanne Dubé draws lessons from family tragedy
"Then everything began to take on meaning as if the exercise of putting words on paper … was gradually revealing the truth to me."
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The carefully constructed world of diplomat Roxanne Dubé, Canada’s consul general in Miami, shattered to pieces early on the afternoon of March 30, 2015.
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That was when her two teenage sons, Jean and Marc Wabafiyebazu, pulled a Black BMW with diplomatic plates into a parking lot behind a Coral Way apartment building. Jean went through a back door, while Marc stayed in the passenger seat of their mother’s car.
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