Freedom Convoy leaders claim ‘nefarious elements’ are planning to plant 2,000 stolen guns on protesters in Ottawa to ‘discredit’ their movement – after Mounties arrested 11 with cache of firearms in Alberta
- Convoy security chief Danny Bulford made the allegation in a video address late on Monday night
- Claimed ‘nefarious elements’ plan to plant firearms on demonstrators in Ottawa to ‘discredit’ them
- Suggested the plot could be linked to a truck filled with guns stolen in Ontario early Sunday morning
- Police say that the truck was stolen as a crime of opportunity by crooks who first tried several other trucks
- But Bulford thinks it could be a dark plot to crack down after Trudeau’s emergency declaration
- On Monday, Mounties seized 15 guns and arrested 11 at a border blockade in Coutts, Alberta
- Convoy leaders have declined to address the arrests, cutting off a press conference when asked about them
Leaders of the Freedom Convoy protests in Canada have alleged that ‘nefarious elements’ are plotting to plant stolen guns on demonstrators in Ottawa in a bid to ‘discredit’ their movement, a day after Mounties seized 15 guns and arrested 11 people thousands of miles away in Alberta.
Danny Bulford, the self-described head of security for the Freedom Convoy, made the allegation in a video address late Monday night, suggesting the plot is connected to a truck full of firearms that was stolen in Ontario on Sunday.
‘We received information from multiple believed-reliable sources that firearms may be planted in Ottawa, specifically around the Freedom Convoy, to discredit the protest and to use as a pretext to forcibly remove peaceful protesters,’ said Bulford, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer.
‘This private intelligence correlates with the approximately 2,000 firearms stolen in Peterborough, Ontario on Sunday morning,’ he continued. ‘Our sources have notified us that these weapons may be planted by nefarious elements, and at this point, we have no further knowledge about who is behind this act of sabotage.’
The small-caliber guns stolen on Sunday in Ontario were taken from a parked tractor belonging to gun maker Savage Arms, but police say that it was a crime of opportunity and unrelated to the protests.
Bulford did not allege that a separate cache of weapons, body armor and a machete seized on Monday from a border blockade in Alberta were planted, and protest leaders have so far declined to publicly address the Alberta arrests.
A senior official with the Mounties told DailyMail.com that there is no information linking the stolen gun shipment in Ontario with the firearms seized in Alberta.
It comes after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to crack down on the protests against vaccine mandates, which continue to paralyze the capital city of Ottawa and block several western border crossings.
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