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Police investigating anti-Semitic posters in Ottawa’s west end as hate crime

The Ottawa Police Service is probing hateful content posted in Nepean and Barrhaven recently. File / Global News

Anti-Semitic posters put up in Nepean and Barrhaven over the weekend are now the subject of an Ottawa police hate crime investigation.

Police said in a statement Monday that posters with “anti-Semitic and hateful content” were discovered Sunday near a skate park off Centrepointe Drive.

Eight similar incidents have also been reported across the city’s west end and in Barrhaven, police said.

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Anyone with information about the postings is asked to call 613-236-1222 ext. 5015.

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