This content was published on February 12, 2022 – 15:42
Toronto (Canada), Feb 12 (EFE).- The Windsor Police (Canada) began to evict trucks and other vehicles that for six days have been blocking the Ambassador International Bridge, which connects Canada and the United States.
Local television images show dozens of police officers advancing towards the protesters, around a hundred, and several dozen vehicles, which continue to impede traffic on the bridge.
Faced with the advance of the Police, the protesters, who oppose the measures adopted against the pandemic, have begun to slowly back down and a couple of heavy trucks that were participating in blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge, the main land passage between Canada and United States, have withdrawn.
Some of the demonstrators, many carrying Canadian flags, have begun singing the national anthem, “O Canada,” while others rebuke the officers, asking “who are you working for?” and questioning their actions.
The action of the Police comes after, on Friday, a judge ordered the anti-vaccine truckers to withdraw the blockade of the bridge before 7:00 p.m. this Friday (11:00 p.m. GMT).
Following the order of Judge Geoffrey Morawetz, of the Superior Court of Ontario, the Police distributed leaflets to truckers on Friday night indicating that as of Saturday the state of emergency would come into effect in Ontario and that the blockade of the bridge was “illegal”. “.
The blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, one of the actions that the anti-vaccine movement and truckers opposed to measures against the pandemic have carried out in the last two weeks, has caused serious damage to the economies of Canada and the United States.
At least six vehicle assembly plants on both sides of the border have had to reduce production, or cease production altogether, due to a lack of parts.
On Friday, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, spoke with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and promised to end the blockade of the bridge, which connects Windsor with Detroit (USA).
In addition to Windsor, protesters block two other border crossings in the center and west of the country.
In Ottawa, some 400 trucks and hundreds of people have been blocking the streets surrounding Parliament for two weeks despite repeated requests by the authorities to stop the “illegal occupation” of the Canadian capital. EFE
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