MONTREAL – Police weren’t making any immediate link with ongoing
student protests after red paint was splashed overnight Sunday across
the front facade of Quebec Education Department offices in Montreal.
The site of the vandalism is 600 Fullum St., just south of Ste. Catherine St. E., near the Jacques Cartier Bridge.
Cleaning workers were brought in Monday morning to hose off the paint.
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But
a link with widespread student protests over proposed
university-tuition hikes “is a possibility, because of the way it’s
done,” Montreal police Constable Anie Lemieux said, noting use of the
signature colour red.
That’s been the colour symbolically used by the student protesters in recent weeks.
“Our investigators are looking into it,” Lemieux said of the perpetrators.
“Apparently there is” video available from a security system, Lemieux said, “so investigators will look into that.”
The paint appears to have been splashed sometime before or after midnight Sunday, Lemieux said.
It probably happened between 11 p.m. Sunday and 1:30 a.m. Monday, when Montreal police were called to the scene, she added.
“No
suspect has been questioned in connection with this event,” Constable
Raphaël Bergeron of Montreal police said about 6 a.m. Monday.
Added Lemieux about 10:30 a.m.: “There are no new developments.”
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