‘We need answers’: Men detained in bogus Parliament Hill bomb threat demand apology
Global News
In an exclusive television interview with Global News, Parminder Singh and Manveer Singh say they want answers about who called in the bogus bomb tip.
The two men arrested after a bogus Parliament Hill bomb threat on Saturday are asking police for answers — and a public apology.
Parminder Singh and Manveer Singh were organizers of a planned rally for Parliament Hill on Saturday to commemorate the June 1984 massacre of Sikhs in India. Their rally was relocated when a heavy police presence descended on the parliamentary precinct after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) tipped off Ottawa police about a potential bomb threat.
Acting on what they thought at the time was a “credible threat” of explosives, Ottawa police detained the two men and searched their vehicles — one at the busy intersection of Slater and Metcalfe streets, the other near the Supreme Court where the rally had been relocated.
It was a “really dark day of my life” said Parminder Singh in an exclusive television interview with Global News.
“It certainly deeply hurt me. It hurt me personally, it hurt my community and my family and my friends,” he said on Tuesday.
“I mean, I couldn’t sleep since Saturday night. You know, it’s going through my mind: who’s behind this? Why?”
According to the Ottawa Police Service, a “detailed and specific threat about the potential use of explosives in the area of Parliament Hill” came in just after 11 a.m. Saturday. The OPS confirmed the tip came from a “federal agency,” which Global has previously reported was the CBSA. Sources said the tip included photographs and the licence plate numbers of the two men’s vehicles.
The CBSA, which originally received and passed along the bomb threat tip, has refused to confirm or deny its involvement in the investigation.
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