Around thirty pro-Palestinian protesters have been blocking the railway line at the intersection of Seigneurial and Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier boulevards in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville since Saturday morning.
Police officers from the Longueuil Agglomeration Police Service (SPAL) arrived on the scene mid-morning while protesters were holding up a banner reading “against colonial transport for genocidal purposes.”
According to a statement from the BDS Direct Action Ad Hoc Collective, the protesters are targeting the rail transport of goods to Israel.
Goods would be transported between Montreal and Halifax on Canadian National (CN) freight trains and then to Haifa on ships owned by Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd.
“We made petitions, declarations, and resolutions, and it didn’t work,” declared one of the people organizing the demonstration, Dominique Gagnon, in the press release. Today we are blocking the rails used to transfer goods between Canada and the Zionist entity because the entire political class has failed Palestine. »
More details to come.