12 Montreal teens arrested for throwing rocks at police
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
CBC News [Quebec]
Twelve Montreal youths face mischief charges after police cars were pelted with rocks Tuesday night in an east-end borough.
A group of young people gathered in a park near 15th Avenue and Maurice-Duplessis Boulevard and started lobbing rocks at nearby cars around 9 p.m. Tuesday, police said. The park is located in Rivière-des-Prairies, a borough in Montreal’s northeast.
Authorities said it’s too early to say whether there’s a link between the rock-throwing incident and a riot in Montreal North on the weekend — although both boroughs are near one another.
Police also found bottles in the area that appeared to be filled with a flammable liquid, likely gasoline, although investigators will have to run tests to confirm the contents, Const. Yannick Ouimet said.
Authorities have no evidence to link the bottles to the rock-throwing, but “it’s obvious someone planted them there, it’s just a question of figuring out who,” he said.
At some point, a shot was fired at a city bus, but police reported no weapons were found.
Some of the 12 people arrested are minors and will appear in youth court, Ouimet said. All suspects face charges of disturbing the peace and mischief.
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Quiet returned Monday night [except for a few trash-can fires and rock-throwing]
August 12, 2008
CBC News
[…] Police kept a close watch on the impoverished [Montreal North] neighbourhood Monday night with dozens of marked and unmarked police cars circling the streets.
Except for a few trash-can fires and rock-throwing, the area remained quiet.
Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis assured the police investigation results will be released widely once they’re available.
“The population wants to know what happened,” he said Tuesday. “That is why I’ve asked the director of the Sureté du Québec to be in contact with the population as much as he can.”
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