MONTREAL – Mayor Denis Coderre has taken to his Twitter to ask the city’s police force to put their uniforms back on.
This comes after two attacks were made on military personnel this week.
“For security, vigilance and solidarity reasons, it is time for our police officers to put their uniforms back on,” he tweeted.
The first attack was on Monday in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu when 25-year-old Martin Rouleau-Couture purposely ran his vehicle into two soldiers, killing 53-year-old Patrice Vincent.
Vincent was a 28-year veteran of the Canadian Forces.
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The second attack happened Wednesday in Ottawa when a gunman stormed Parliament Hill.
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau reportedly shot and killed Nathan Cirillo, a civilian soldier who was standing guard at the War Memorial before entering the government building.
Both Rouleau-Couture and Zehaf-Bibeau were killed by officers on the scene.
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Montreal police have been wearing camouflage pants for the last few weeks as part of a pressure tactic against the provincial government’s proposed pension plan.
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