Canada – Montreal Man Tries To Enter Jewish Day School To ‘Liberate’ Children

Canada – A Montreal man tried to enter an ultra-Orthodox day school for children on Tuesday to ‘liberate’ them.

The man, dressed in flag of Quebec, rang the Yeshiva Gedola school’s intercom and told the director, “I want to liberate the children. If you don’t let me in, I’ll protest on the sidewalk,” according to the Montreal Gazette (http://bit.ly/1ChZToD).

Rachel Schecter, director of the school located in in Park Extension, told the man he couldn’t enter the school because he wasn’t a parent of a child there, then called the police because she did not know if he was carrying weapons or what his intentions were.

Shecter believes the man did not have intentions to harm the children, and in his “warped” way may have been trying to liberate the children like the Jews were liberated from Auschwitz, as Tuesday was Holocaust Memorial Day.

Rabbi Yehuda Gottesman, executive director of the school, said security protocol currently in place shows how safe the school is.

According to police, no one has been arrested in the incident.

Information taken from the Montreal Gazette