Quebec Police Admit Protesters Were Undercover Agents But Deny Wrongdoing
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007After an embarrassing day for the Quebec Provincial Police, where they first denied and then confirmed they had undercover officers acting as protesters at the ‘Three Amigos’ summit in Montreal last weekend, many questions still linger.
At a news conference scheduled by the QPP to answer questions regarding their behavior on Friday afternoon, Inspector Marcel Savard defended the three and insisted they were not there to provoke demonstrators. He also says one of the officers was given a rock by protesters but the officer had no intention of using it.
After originally denying it, the force has admitted the trio was involved in the protest after a video clip of the them showed up on the popular website, YouTube.com. But the provincial police are denying they were attempting to provoke protesters into violence and say the three officers were planted in the crowd to locate any protesters who were not peacefully demonstrating.
