Police are investigating the weekend violence, which led officers to take the rare step of proclaiming the Riot Act.
, which pitted members of the city’s Eritrean community against one another and led officers to take the rare step of proclaiming the Riot Act.Police responded to clashes across the city over the weekend, during which stones, bricks and other objects were hurled at officers in riot gear. No charges have yet been laid, police said in a news release Monday afternoon.
The chaos began Saturday morning at a field near 163 Street and 95 Avenue in west Edmonton, where organizers had planned events for the annual Eritrean Festival. The long-running festival celebrates the history and culture of the East African nation, but both organizers and police say they were aware of the potential for violence. Other Eritrean festivals in Europe, the United States and Toronto this year wereposted online weeks before the Edmonton event called for the festival to be shut down, claiming it was “sponsored” by the Eritrean regime, considered among the most oppressive in Africa.
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