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Posted: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 16:47
Legislators in Canada’s House of Commons unanimously voted on Tuesday to ask the federal government to grant permanent residence to a Guinean man who was held in detention for six days last month after being wrongly accused of shooting a Montreal police officer.
Mamadi Ill Fara Camara, a 31-year-old PhD student, was arrested Jan. 28 after witnessing an attack on a police officer by an unknown assailant. The officer had stopped him for allegedly driving while using a cell phone in Montreal’s Parc-Extension neighbourhood.
By unanimous consent, the #HoC adopted a motion to call upon the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship to grant permanent residence to Mamadi Fara Camara as soon as possible.
Ottawa is being urged to grant permanent residency to a Quebec man who was wrongfully arrested, charged with attempted murder of a police officer and detained for six days before being let go.
In the span of 18 days, Mamadi III Fara Camara has gone from anonymous engineering lab instructor, to being pulled out of his car and arrested for attacking a Montreal police officer, to spending six nights in jail, to receiving an official police apology.