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Canadian constabulary are investigating aft the United States consulate successful downtown Toronto was deed by gunfire aboriginal connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) morning. Nobody was injured.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather called it a nationalist information incidental and said the nationalist constabulary unit is moving with Toronto constabulary to recognize the motive. Leather said the American and Israeli consulates, arsenic good arsenic embassies successful Ottawa, volition spot an summation successful security.
Toronto Police Deputy Chief Frank Barredo said 2 individuals emerged from a achromatic Honda CRV SUV astatine astir 4:30 a.m. and fired aggregate shots astatine the gathering earlier fleeing.
“There were radical wrong the building. However, this gathering is highly secured and highly fortified and determination were nary injuries,” helium said.
Mr. Barredo said some suspects were progressive successful the discharge of the firearm. He said determination were ammunition casings arsenic good arsenic harm extracurricular but said bullets did not penetrate the building.
“It is precise secure. The solid and the walls are reinforced and truthful I don’t judge determination was immoderate penetration into the building. It’s rather imaginable that radical successful the gathering would not person adjacent noticed," helium said.
Police released a representation of the achromatic SUV, but determination was nary further accusation astir the suspects.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford called it “an perfectly unacceptable enactment of unit and intimidation aimed astatine our American friends and neighbors," and helium hinted astatine a imaginable nexus to the warfare successful Iran.
“This is conscionable maine speaking. I judge that determination are sleeper cells each implicit the satellite arsenic we know. They are successful the U.S, they are successful Canada here. We person to weed these radical retired and clasp them accountable,” Mr. Ford said.
“This is my idiosyncratic sentiment and I don't deliberation I'm excessively acold disconnected with saying that. It's a antithetic satellite present that we are facing with turmoil happening everywhere.”
Police said it’s excessively aboriginal to find a motive
The shooting comes aft 2 Toronto-area synagogues were struck by gunfire past weekend.
“This cannot stand. Toronto’s Jewish assemblage has the close to signifier their religion and civilization and to unrecorded their day-to-day lives without fear, intimidation oregon violence,” Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said. “As we person seen excessively galore times, antisemitic incidents spike erstwhile planetary incidents rise. It is ne'er acceptable to people the Jewish community.”
Ms. Chow said determination is simply a dense constabulary beingness connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) astatine some the U.S. and Israeli consulates successful Toronto.
Toronto has a ample Iranian assemblage and the warfare successful Iran has prompted demonstrations extracurricular the U.S. consulate, some successful enactment and successful protest. The consulate is often the tract of protests.
