Quebec Police Admit Protesters Were Undercover Agents But Deny Wrongdoing
After 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.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Perhaps instead of decrying the presence of undercover police officers at the peaceful protest, activists should invite police observers to their gathering in exchange for having a number of their representatives given unrestricted access to the meeting.
I’m sure that both groups of individuals would be on their absolute best behavior as their actions would be scrutinized closely by the people they represent.