'This is not Montreal': Mayor, police denounce shootings at 2 Jewish schools
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Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said Thursday she was 'horrified' by the shots fired at two Jewish schools and appealed for calm following the latest acts of violence targeting the city's Jewish community.
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said Thursday she was "horrified" by the shots fired at Jewish schools and appealed for calm following the latest acts of violence targeting the city's Jewish community.
"This is absolutely unacceptable. This is not Montreal," Plante said, flanked by the deputy police chief and mayor for the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (CDN-NDG) borough where the shootings happened.
"Our values [are] to be inclusive, to be respectful, and it has to stay that way because this is what Montreal wants."
Montreal police (SPVM) confirmed Thursday they are investigating after two Jewish schools were hit by bullets overnight.
The first incident was reported to police at 8:20 a.m. when a member of the United Talmud Torahs of Montreal Inc. found a bullet hole in a door of the school. The institution on Saint-Kevin and Victoria avenues includes an elementary and high school.
About 30 minutes later on Thursday morning, someone called 911 about a bullet hole found in the door of Yeshiva Gedola, a Jewish school that also includes a daycare. The school is near the intersection of Vimy Avenue and Deacon Road, about a 10-minute drive from the first school.
