Anarchists staged a battle in front of the G20 summit in Toronto - hundreds of detainees

The police arrested about 300 people on Saturday, who are considered the instigators of the mass riots of the Toronto, who had swept through the streets of Toronto, before the start of the Twenty summit. This was announced to reporters by the head of the city police Bill Blair.

“A small group of anarchists carried out acts of vandalism,” he said. “They used the tactics of the Black Bloc: they threw stones at the police, and then hid in the crowd of demonstrators. We know many of the members of these anarchist groups and began to produce arrests among them.”

When examining one of the cars in the area of ​​the so -called "zone of freedom of speech", created for demonstrators by the police during the summit, "suspicious objects" were discovered. On Saturday, about 10 thousand people took part in the city center in protest demonstrations.

According to the chief of the Toronto police, during the confrontation with the protest shares, tear gas and "acoustic guns" were used. Bill Blair also said that the police were forced to clean the specially allocated "Freedom of Word Freedom" in Kuins Park.

“Freedom of speech has restrictions when those who abuse it begin to violate the rights of others,” said the chief of the Toronto police. “My employees saw how the persons participating in the acts of violence were hidden on this territory.“ We never saw such crime, ”he said in conclusion. - We will try to hold all the perpetrators to justice. "

The apparatus of the Prime Minister of Canada distributed a statement that emphasizes that the acts of violence on the eve of the opening of the Twenty summit - "this is not a Canadian way of expressing their views." During the riots, police cars were burned and several dozen windows in the center of Toronto were broken, ITAR-TASS reports.