TORONTO — Violence erupted at a festival for Toronto’s Eritrean community on Saturday as participants clashed with demonstrators in exchanges that sent at…
Protesters, Eritrean themselves, said they showed up to demonstrate against the festival, which they said supports the government of Eritrea.
On Saturday morning in Toronto, police said they first received reports of a person with a knife. Further tweets later indicated fights had broken out in the park and tents had been set on fire. But the morning’s tension did not dissipate later in the day. By mid-afternoon, about 200 demonstrators had gathered across a roughly equal number of festival-goers separated by a wall of police.Article content
Coun. Alejandra Bravo, who represents the ward where the park is located, denounced the outbreak of violence.
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