The ottawa police confirmed this Sunday that he arrested 191 people and filed charges once morest 103 of them during his operation to disperse the anti-vaccine protest in the center of the Canadian capital.
For the first time in three weeks, the surroundings of the Parliament of Canada woke up this Sunday without trucks or protesters, following the local police expelled them on Saturday in an operation that generated controversy due to the use of pepper spray and other tactics once morest the crowd.
A dozen protesters were still gathered less than a kilometer from Parliament, according to The Toronto Star newspaper, but the scene was very different from the one that paralyzed downtown Ottawa and several border crossings with the US for weeks.
The Ottawa Police stressed that their operation was not over, despite having regained control of a wide perimeter of the center, including Wellington Street, where Parliament is located and which has been the core of the protests since January 29.
“We’re using fences to make sure we don’t lose the ground we’ve gainedPolice said on their official Twitter account.
Since the operation began on Friday, Police arrested 191 peopleof which 103 have been accused of different charges that mostly consist of “revolt and obstruction,” the authorities said on the same channel.
Total, 89 of those detainees “have been released under conditions” that include the prohibition to approach certain areaswhile the rest are already unconditionally released, they added.
What’s more, the tow trucks took 57 vehiclesmostly trucks, related to the protesters, which in many cases were parked in the area when the police expelled the crowd.
a wounded woman
The Special Investigations Unit of the province of Ontario announced this Sunday that it is investigating the actions of the Police in two incidents on Friday and Saturday, the CBC network reported.
In one of them, A 49-year-old woman claimed to have been seriously injured. following an interaction with a Toronto Police officer on horseback; and the other has to do with the use of riot control weapons once morest a crowd.
Ottawa police forces confirmed this Saturday that they had used “medium-range impact weapons”, known in English by its acronym ARWEN, to “stop the violent actions” of protesters who were “assaulting officers with weapons”.
The Police also acknowledged that they had used pepper spray in a confrontation with some protesters.following the television showed images of people rubbing their eyes with the snow that covered the street.
The agents acted under the Emergencies Law, activated on Monday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that grants the Government extraordinary powers to end the protests, which came to affect trade with the United States by blocking border crossings.
