(Windsor) Many police are currently at the Ambassador Bridge, a major border axis between Canada and the United States, to try to dislodge the truckers.
Posted at 9:15 a.m.
Updated at 9:38 a.m.
One of the leading trucks cleared the way, sounding its horn. Around him, the demonstrators raise their fists in the air.
Several people are still occupying the intersection near the bridge. Todd Morneau, a protester, does not know if he will move. “I’ll do what truckers do,” he said.
One of the main supply tents was dismantled on Saturday morning. But some demonstrators refuse to leave. “We’re not armed, but we’re not going to move,” said Windsor resident Fernando Goritz.
PHOTO NATHAN DENETTE, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Protesters demonstrators load their equipment into a truck before the police intervene.
Two kilometers from the bridge, on Huron Church Street towards the city center, the other demonstration continues to the sound of horns. However, cars can drive on one of the lanes.
“We urge all protesters to act lawfully and peacefully,” police in Windsor, where the bridge is located, tweeted on Saturday morning, announcing that they had begun their intervention. She asks residents to avoid the area.
Dozens of officers and vehicles arrived on the scene after 8 a.m. and took up position against the fifty or so demonstrators installed in their trucks and vans to paralyze the bridge that connects Windsor, Ontario to the American city of Detroit.
The Superior Court of Ontario on Friday ordered the departure of these demonstrators installed since Monday on this major border axis between the two American neighbors, a blockage which prompted Washington to intervene with the Trudeau government.
PHOTO CARLOS OSORIO, REUTERS
But the injunction had not shaken the demonstrators, who said they were determined to go through with their action.
The shutdown has caused disruption for the auto industry on both sides of the border.
The protest against health measures that has shaken Canada for two weeks started with the movement of Canadian truckers against the vaccination obligation to cross the border with the United States. The demonstrators, who block the federal capital Ottawa and several important border axes with the United States, are now demanding the lifting of all health restrictions.
With Agence France-Presse