A police intervention with a “potentially dangerous” individual forced the evacuation of an elementary school Monday afternoon in Terrebonne, on the north shore of Montreal.
As the police were not able “100%” to locate the individual in question, after having been alerted to his presence in the area by means of a call to 9-1-1, they preferred to evacuate the Vieux-Chêne primary school, located nearby.
The students and teachers were thus evacuated under escort at the end of the classes, said the captain of the Terrebonne Police Department, David Provencher.
“Never was there a threat or anything to the school, the students or the staff. It’s really a step on our part to secure and ensure that the world is safe, ”he said.
The individual behind the deployment was finally located in a residence on rue de la Portneuf, where he was still at the end of the afternoon.
The police were talking to him in the hope of getting him out, Captain David Provencher said.