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Date: August 23, 2007 9:31:31 AM PDT
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Subject: Police sent agent provocateur "anarchists" to
Mexamericanada summit
Police accused of using provocateurs at summit
Aug 21, 2007 09:14 PM
Canadian Press
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608
OTTAWA – Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents
to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders'
summit in Montebello, Que.
Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations
but this time the alleged "agents provocateurs" have been caught on
camera.
A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces
masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a
line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men is
holding a rock in his hand.
The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president
of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
Coles makes it clear the masked men are not welcome among his group
of protesters, whom he describes as mainly grandparents. He urges
them to leave and find their own protest location.
Coles also demands that they put down their rocks. Other protesters
begin to chime in that the three are really police agents. Several
try to snatch the bandanas from their faces.
Rather than leave, the three actually start edging closer to the
police line, where they appear to engage in discussions. They
eventually push their way past an officer, whereupon other police
shove them to the ground and handcuff them.
Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced,
showing the trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the
soles of their boots adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer
kneeling beside the men has an identical yellow triangle on the
sole of his boot.
Kevin Skerrett, a protester with the group Nowar-Paix, said the
photos and video together present powerful evidence that the men
were actually undercover police officers.
"I think the circumstantial evidence is very powerful," he said.
The three do not appear to have been arrested or charged with any
offence.
Police confirm that only four protesters were arrested during the
summit – two men and two women. All have been charged with
obstruction and resisting arrest.
Veteran protester Jaggi Singh, who is helping to circulate the
video as widely as possible, said all four of those arrested are
known to organizers and are genuine protesters.
"But we see very clearly in that video three (other) men being
arrested . . . How do (police) account for these three people being
taken in, being arrested? Where did they go?" Singh said.
"I have no hesitation in saying they were police agents . . . and
they were caught red-handed."
Singh, a member of the Montreal-based No One is Illegal, believes
the agents were meant to provoke a confrontation and give the
police an excuse to use some of their "toys," such as tear gas and
rubber bullets.
"To a certain extent it's self-fulfilling logic. You provide police
with this kind of equipment and they end up using it and one way to
justify it is to plant some people that toss a rock or two."
Neither the RCMP nor the Surete du Quebec would comment on the
video or even discuss generally whether they ever use the tactic of
employing agents provocateurs.
"I cannot answer your question because I don't have the
information," said Const. Kane Kramer, a spokesman for the RCMP at
the summit.
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