Montreal Chinatown merchants calling on city to clean up drug use in neighbourhood
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Montreal police raided an encampment in Montreal's Chinatown Friday, a site that business owners and residents describe as one of the most dangerous places in the neighbourhood.
Montreal police raided an encampment on Brady Lane in Montreal’s Chinatown Friday morning, a site that business owners and residents describe as one of the most dangerous places in the neighbourhood.
“They’re not here that frequently, and this particular alleyway is known as the nice marketplace for purchasing drugs,” Chinatown business and property owner Vincent Lupien said while watching the operation.
Police made at least one arrest. According to some area merchants who’ve long complained, it’s about time.
“My first thought was, ‘How ironic,'” said Bryant Chang of the Chinese Association of Montreal.
Just minutes before the police operation, he and business owners met reporters to call on the city and police service to do more to curb the sharp escalation of drug sales and consumption on the streets in that area.
They called the press conference after a Global News story about residents expressing fear about the drug and homeless situation.
“We have to make sure that Chinatown is safe and clean and now is the time to start putting plans in place,” Bill Wong, business owner and co-chair of the Chinatown Development Council, told reporters.
The merchants believe that the plans the city and the police implemented in the city’s Village neighbourhood earlier this summer to crack down on a similar problem there may have caused criminal elements to migrate to Chinatown.
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