Montreal police move in to dismantle part of homeless encampment east of downtown
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Montreal police are carrying out an operation to dismantle sections of a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street East near the city's downtown core.
Last month, Quebec's Transport Ministry issued eviction notices to the people who had been living in tents near Morgan Park in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough. The Quebec government owns that stretch of land.
Initially, the people living there were given until Nov. 21 to leave.
The province has cited fire hazards and unsanitary conditions as the reasons to dismantle the encampment.
That deadline was then extended to today.
In an interview with CBC, Montreal police chief Fady Dagher said the operation has been going smoothly so far.
"There's some resistance, but there's no violence," Dagher told CBC Montreal Daybreak host Sean Henry.
"When a person is staying exactly where they are for so many months and so many weeks and you ask them to move ... for sure, they're not going to be happy."
Rhys Buhl, an organizer with Refus Local, a group that has advocated for unhoused campers, spoke to Daybreak while standing at the encampment and watching the operation unfold.
At around 7:40 a.m., she said there were about 50 police officers on site who formed a perimeter around the camp and there was at least one loader truck and a garbage truck.
"I am currently watching the residents' tents and their personal effects being thrown into the garbage and being cleared away," she said.
Later during the interview, she said she saw officers holding their batons and described their approach as violent.
As for the concerns about fire hazards and unsanitary conditions, Buhl said she and her group have been at the site regularly in the last few weeks and said the campers were doing the best they could with what they had.
"These are people that are in a survival situation in an urban environment," she said, adding the city should've provided resources to mitigate those risks.
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