by Lorraine Carpenter, Local Journalism Initiative reporter

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has released a statement about antisemitism following the discovery of bullet holes this morning in the window of Falafel Yoni, a Jewish-owned business in Mile End.

In late May, the SPVM also discovered evidence of a shooting at the Belz school on Hillsdale Road in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.

Plante said that she has full confidence in the SPVM finding the perpetrator of the crime, and stated that antisemitism has no place in Montreal.

“I am shocked to learn that new acts of violence appear to have been committed with the aim of intimidating the Jewish community of Montreal. Antisemitism and violence, whether expressed in images, words or gestures, do not represent us and have no place in Montreal.”