In Canada, the police have been interfering with the drivers who have been in action with their trucks near the parliament to protest the Corona virus measures for about 3 weeks. After more than 100 demonstrators were detained yesterday, police detained 47 more this morning.
Canadian police said in a statement on their Twitter account that until today, truckers were given time to withdraw and end the road blocking action, but the drivers did not comply with these calls.
When some group members, calling themselves the “Freedom Convoy”, were waiting in their vehicles in a locked condition, the police broke the windows of some trucks and detained the demonstrators inside.
It was announced that some of the detainees were wearing steel vests and smoke bombs and fireworks were on them.
The police are also removing many trucks from the area where the action continues with tow trucks. In the action where the demonstrators and the police come face to face from time to time, the police are throwing smoke bombs while the police are intervening with the demonstrators with gas and sound bombs.
The demonstrations started after the vaccination was mandatory for truck drivers at the border crossing between the USA and Canada. Many people, from time to time, also supported the actions, which later turned into demonstrations against the vaccine and the COVID-19 epidemic measures.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has activated emergency powers to lift the three-week protests and the truck blockade around the parliament building. In this context, since Friday, the police began to interfere with the protesters.