(Montreal) Two young men have been taken to hospital after being assaulted in southwestern Montreal during an agreed meeting on social networks in order to proceed with a transaction.
The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) reports that the two injured, aged 16 and 19, will be saved. No arrests had been announced as of Monday morning.
The meeting involving in particular a group of five young men all under the age of 20 would have taken place around 11:50 p.m., Sunday, at the intersection of boulevards Newman and Angrignon, in the borough of LaSalle.
A disagreement may have broken out and the five young people would have fled in a car, but they would have been chased by another vehicle.
Shortly after, the young man driving the car being chased lost control and violently hit a tree, which fell on the roadway and obstructed traffic.
Suspects would then have descended from the other vehicle to attack two of the five occupants of the accident vehicle before fleeing.
The SPVM recalls that there are secure exchange areas for people who carry out online transactions on sites for the sale and exchange of goods in order to help prevent fraud and other crimes. These spaces, monitored by camera and available 24 hours a day, every day, make it possible to meet the people with whom an online transaction has been carried out and to proceed with the exchange of the property sold.
The secure communication zones are located on the premises of a multitude of SPVM neighborhood police stations.