Around thirty pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the railway line at the intersection of Seigneurial and Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier boulevards in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville around 10 a.m. this Saturday morning.
Published at 11:59 a.m.
Updated at 1:58 p.m.
Police officers from the Longueuil Agglomeration Police Service (SPAL) arrived on the scene mid-morning as protesters held up a banner reading “against colonial transport for genocidal purposes.”
According to a press release from the ad hoc BDS Direct Action Collective, the demonstrators were targeting the transport of goods to Israel by rail.
A post on SPAL social media explains that a 31-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man were arrested.
The woman faces charges of mischief and the man faces charges of assault and obstructing police.
SPAL added that four police officers were “inconvenienced by pepper spray” and that no one among the demonstrators was injured.
Goods would travel between Montreal and Halifax on Canadian National (CN) freight trains and then to Haifa aboard ships belonging to the company Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd.
“We made petitions, declarations, and resolutions, and it did not work,” declared one of the organizers of the demonstration Dominique Gagnon in the press release. Today we are blocking the rails used to transfer goods between Canada and the Zionist entity because the entire political class has failed Palestine. »
