Marie-France Sirois hadn’t heard news about her son for days, until his best friend in the army called.
“I knew it was the end,” she said.
Her son, Émile-Antoine Roy-Sirois, 31, died on July 18, according to his friend, Adriel Martinez, an American volunteer in Ukraine. Roy-Sirois left Montreal in March to lend support to Ukrainian troops.
Sirois is hoping to bring her son’s body back to Montreal, after she spent months pleading with him not to leave.
“He was bright and clever and kind … People loved him at first sight,” she said. “I’ll miss everything [about him], all my life.”
She says she’s
