Freedom Convoy Organizers Say They Notified Police After Being Told ‘Nefarious Elements’ Plan to Discredit Protest

Organizers of the Freedom Convoy in the Canadian capital say they have notified police after being told that “nefarious elements” are planning to plant weapons at the Ottawa COVID-19 mandate demonstrations as a “pretext to forcibly remove peaceful protestors.” In a video posted to Facebook late on Feb. 14, organizers said they had received information from sources they consider to be “reliable” that the weapons may be planted. The information, they said, correlates with the more than 2,000 firearms that were stolen in the city of Peterborough on the morning of Feb. 13. Peterborough Police Service officers had said they are investigating the incident regarding the stolen firearms, which were taken from a trucking yard in the city in the early hours of the morning. The truck and trailer were carrying more than 2,000 firearms with magazines but no ammunition was taken, officials said. “Today on Feb. 14, we received information from multiple believed, reliable sources that …

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