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Titolo: Police accused of using provocateurs at summit

Police accused of using provocateurs at summit
 
Canadian Press 
OTTAWA – Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to
provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in
Montebello, Que.
Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but
this time the alleged "agents provocateurs" have been caught on camera.
A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces masked by
bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a line of police in
riot gear. At least one of the masked men is holding a rock in his hand.
The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president of the
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it
clear the masked men are not welcome among his group of protesters, whom
he describes as mainly grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their
own protest location.
Coles also demands that they put down their rocks. Other protesters begin
to chime in that the three are really police agents. Several try to snatch
the bandanas from their faces.
Rather than leave, the three actually start edging closer to the police
line, where they appear to engage in discussions. They eventually push
their way past an officer, whereupon other police shove them to the ground
and handcuff them.
Late Tuesday, photographs taken by another protester surfaced, showing the
trio lying prone on the ground. The photos show the soles of their boots
adorned by yellow triangles. A police officer kneeling beside the men has
an identical yellow triangle on the sole of his boot.
Kevin Skerrett, a protester with the group Nowar-Paix, said the photos and
video together present powerful evidence that the men were actually
undercover police officers.
"I think the circumstantial evidence is very powerful," he said.
The three do not appear to have been arrested or charged with any offence.
Police confirm that only four protesters were arrested during the summit –
two men and two women. All have been charged with obstruction and
resisting arrest.
Veteran protester Jaggi Singh, who is helping to circulate the video as
widely as possible, said all four of those arrested are known to
organizers and are genuine protesters.
"But we see very clearly in that video three (other) men being arrested .
 . How do (police) account for these three people being taken in, being
arrested? Where did they go?" Singh said.
"I have no hesitation in saying they were police agents . . . and they
were caught red-handed."
Singh, a member of the Montreal-based No One is Illegal, believes the
agents were meant to provoke a confrontation and give the police an excuse
to use some of their "toys," such as tear gas and rubber bullets.
"To a certain extent it's self-fulfilling logic. You provide police with
this kind of equipment and they end up using it and one way to justify it
is to plant some people that toss a rock or two."
Neither the RCMP nor the Surete du Quebec would comment on the video or
even discuss generally whether they ever use the tactic of employing
agents provocateurs.
"I cannot answer your question because I don't have the information," said
Const. Kane Kramer, a spokesman for the RCMP at the summit.
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toh una teoria complottistica..

 toh una teoria complottistica..
toh, un fascista che è sempre dalla parte degli sbirri che fanno il
lavoro sporco per lui..