les Campeurs demandent du renfort à MacGilles... (Forum)

par Jéromec, mercredi 10 juillet 2024, 17:52 (il y a 136 jours) @ Oxygène

Je gage un vieux 3$ dollars que le campement va revenir en force et-ou être déplacé..

C'est d'être terminé..
Et c'est pas Bonmerdel qui va bloquer le tout..

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-pro-palestinian-encampment-dismantle...

Movement ‘will not end with the encampments,’ pro-Palestinian protester says

McGill says the encampment was a "magnet for violence and intimidation" organized largely by individuals who are not part of the university.
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Jason Magder, Katelyn Thomas, René Bruemmer, Harry North • Montreal Gazette
Published Jul 10, 2024 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 6 minute read
Pro-Palestinian protesters are removed from McGill University's campus in Montreal by officers from the Sûreté du Québec riot squad.
Pro-Palestinian protesters are escorted away from McGill University's campus in Montreal by officers from the Sûreté du Québec riot squad. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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McGill University has dismantled the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been on its downtown Montreal campus since April 27.

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Police and agents from the private security firm Sirco arrived at the camp around 4.30 a.m., according to encampment representative and McGill student Zaina Karim.

Excavators and front-end loaders brought in to take down the encampment’s infrastructure were moving debris into dump trucks and off campus. Although the operation was nearly completed by 2 p.m., police remained on site.

“People tried to remain at camp and they were forcefully escorted out even though they wanted to remain,” Karim said.

McGill “never had conversations in good faith with the students there,” said Karim, who added that protesters had been prepared to be forcibly removed.

McGill said the dangers associated with the camp had been escalating and that Montreal fire services had been denied entry.

“On July 5, a security guard was assaulted and the campus was again vandalized, with windows in multiple buildings broken,” McGill said, and the university hired Sirco to investigate.

On Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson for the student encampment said the dismantling shows McGill “was never committed” to a peaceful resolution.
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“We, the students who had set up the encampment, have made it clear from its first day of inception that we are willing to pack up and go home so long as the university commits to divesting from companies complicit in war and genocide,” the spokesperson said. “We have to ask ourselves: Why is the administration more committed to maintaining its ties with these companies than they are to reaching a peaceful end to the encampment?”

He said protesters should not be discouraged by Wednesday’s events.

“The movement for Palestine has never been as co-ordinated and powerful as it is now, and it will continue to pursue our demands until justice prevails.”

Raihaana Adira and a few pro-Israeli friends who attended the protests outside McGill Wednesday morning got into a brief confrontation with pro-Palestinian protesters.

Adira was one of the two McGill students who tried to have a court injunction leveled against the protesters within days of the encampment’s erection. The request was rejected in Quebec Superior Court.

“I think this is a great first step,” she said. “However, I fear there’s still going to be a lot of violence and antisemitism on campus. And I think that just because they take away the encampment does not mean that they’re taking the embedded hate against Jewish students at McGill away.”