Like their counterparts in France, Canada now has its own version of rioting “youth”
Provincial police in Quebec, Canada, wereinvestigating weekend racial riots that overtook a north Montrealneighborhood after a youth was shot dead by police.
Hundreds of riot police were deployed Sunday into early Monday asroving gangs of youths torched a fire station, cars and garbagecontainers, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
The violence stemmed from the fatal police shooting Saturday of18-year-old Honduran immigrant Freddy Villenueva, The Gazette newspapersaid.
Two other youths were shot after they claimed a group of 20 youthsbegan closing in on them as they were questioning Villenueva in apredominantly Haitian immigrant neighborhood, the newspaper said. Theshots killed Villenueva while the other two youths were recovering inhospital, local media said.
In looting violence early Monday, two policeofficers were injured, one by a bullet to the leg, and a paramedic alsowas slightly hurt, CJAD-AM radio reported.