Jewish schools in Montreal targeted by shooting, no injuries reported

Jewish religious schools in Montreal, Canada, were targeted by gunfire during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, police announced Thursday, November 9. No injuries were reported. Bullet holes were found on the doors of two schools on Thursday morning. They would have been shot in the middle of the night when the establishments were empty, according to the authorities.

“I want to be very clear. We condemn this anti-Semitic violence in the strongest possible terms.”reacted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after speaking of a “terrifying” rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, against a backdrop of conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Prime Minister of Quebec, François Legault, launched “a call for calm to all Quebecers”condemning this act as well as a violent confrontation which took place Wednesday in a Montreal university where two student groups claiming to be pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian came to blows.

Earlier this week, Montreal police announced that they had launched an investigation after a synagogue in the Quebec metropolis was targeted with Molotov cocktails. These actions are part of a resurgence of anti-Semitic acts recorded, particularly in Europe, since the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7 and the war that followed.