Montreal – Montreal police are investigating after shots were fired at two Jewish schools.
Police say they received two 911 calls, one at around 8:20 a.m., and the second just before 8:50 a.m.
In both cases, the callers reported the schools’ front doors had been struck by bullets, but police say they cannot yet confirm if there is a link between the incidents.
It is not clear when the shots were fired.
One of the schools, Talmud Torah Elementary School, is located on Saint-Kevin Avenue in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.
At least one bullet casing was found at the scene, according to Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) spokesperson, Jean-Pierre Brabant.
The other, Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal, is located on Deacon Road in Outremont.
Brabant says both schools were empty at the time of the shooting and nobody was injured.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau weighed in on the recent incidents in Montreal.
“For me, violence and hate, antisemitism and scenes such as the ones that we saw at Concordia University or shots fired at Jewish Schools overnight, all of that is unacceptable, and it’s also not who we are,” said Trudeau.
Quebec Premier François Legault told reporters at the same news conference that what happened to the two schools cannot be tolerated.
Public Security Minister François Bonnardel told CBC he is concerned by the shots fired as well as the violence at Concordia University yesterday.
“The SPVM is taking the situation seriously,” he said, adding that families must continue sending their children to schools.
