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Canadian police on Friday started arresting protesters as part of an operation to end a three-week blockade of Ottawa by hundreds of truck drivers that has crippled the capital and prompted prime minister Justin Trudeau to assume emergency powers.
Live television footage showed police making at least seven arrests, without using any force. Officers had detained two of the protest leaders late on Thursday.
One of the two, Chris Barber, has been charged with three counts of counselling others to commit a crime. The other, Tamara Lich, is charged with counselling others to commit mischief. Both were scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
“Some protesters are surrendering and are being arrested. We ask protesters to remain peaceful and lawful,” the Ottawa police said in a tweet.
The drivers, joined by thousands of demonstrators and some 400 vehicles, turned the streets around parliament into a noisy party zone since first arriving on January 28th, in what has become one of the worst crises to hit Mr Trudeau since he took power in 2015.
The drivers initially demanded an end to Covid-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border hauliers but the protest gradually turned into an anti-government and anti-Trudeau demonstration.
On Thursday, interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said: “We absolutely are committed to end this unlawful demonstration. We have the plan, we have the commitment, we have the resources.”
Police will set up a perimeter with 100 checkpoints around downtown to stop people without legitimate reason from entering, he said.
“This weekend will look very different than the past three weekends,” he added. Previous police chief Peter Sloly quit this week amid residents’ fury about what they saw as police inaction.
The House of Commons suspended its Friday sitting due to the expected police action, it said in a notice. – Reuters/Bloomberg