MONTREAL Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said what happened to Mamadi Camara is not acceptable, and she is calling for an independent and neutral investigation as soon as possible an idea the police chief said he would welcome. Camara, a 31-year-old PhD student and Uber driver, was charged with attacking officer Sanjay Vig a week ago, but prosecutors stayed the charges on Wednesday based on new information involving Ministry of Transport surveillance footage. Camara was released from detention. While the charges have been stayed, the investigation into the assault on the officer continues. But during a press conference Thursday, the mayor referred to Camara as an innocent man.
MONTREAL A motion introduced at city council calls on Mayor Valerie Plante to join other Canadian cities in asking the federal government to decriminalize simple drug possession for personal use. Federal data shows the COVID-19 pandemic has led to more deaths due to overdose in the first eight months of 2020 than in all of 2019. This has prompted cities such as Vancouver and Toronto to make a request to the Federal Minister of Health Patty Hajdu to issue an exemption from the federal law criminalizing simple drug possession. The exemption would fall under an existing provision in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that allows for, as an example, safe injection sites to operate.
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