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# ‘It’s Their Revenge’: Lockdown-Sceptic Rebel News Vows to Sue Montreal Police after Reporters Detained at ‘Illegal Gathering’
- URL: https://goodoil.news/its-their-revenge-lockdown-sceptic-rebel-news-vows-to-sue-montreal-police-after-reporters-detained-at-illegal-gathering/
- Published: 2021-04-11T22:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-10T23:56:57.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Free Speech, Media, News, World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

[rt.com](https://www.rt.com/news/520713-rebel-news-arrests-montreal-police/?ref=goodoil.news)

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Reporters for the right-leaning news outlet *Rebel News* have posted videos showing employees being detained by police at an Airbnb location where they were working covering Covid-19 lockdown measures.

In one video posted to Twitter on Saturday, *Rebel News* reporter **David Menzies** can be seen having a tense exchange with police officers, which eventually leads to him being hauled away and detained.

Another reporter for the outlet, **Keene Bexte**, tweeted that he had also been [arrested](https://twitter.com/TheRealKeean/status/1380904120601690112?ref=goodoil.news).

Rebel News co-founder **Ezra Levant** promised he would be suing the officers for their conduct and in another video can be seen taking down one officer’s name.

According to a statement from the Canadian outlet, police arrived at an Airbnb where Rebel News journalists were staying to cover anti-lockdown protests and Covid-19-related arrests and forced everyone out and conducted a *“room to room”* search.

*“When we asked them what the ‘crime’ was, all they could come up with was that our staying in the hotel was an illegal ‘gathering,’ contrary to Quebec’s lockdown laws,”* they said.

The outlet added that they were staying in a *“registered, legal hotel rental on Airbnb”* and fewer guests than the place was built for.

Levant claims the outlet’s unflattering reporting on Montreal police and their enforcement of Covid-19 restrictions is what prompted the visit and search of the houseboat being utilized by the reporters.

*“This is their revenge,”* he said. *“Because we report on their misconduct.”*

Levant is already fundraising to support his lawsuit against police, alleging the search and arrests were unjustified and claiming officers have repeatedly harassed *Rebel News* reporters in recent weeks and made bigoted remarks.

The reaction to the arrests has been mixed at best. While many have [expressed](https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1380993577916932099?ref=goodoil.news) [shock](https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1380998125855371271?ref=goodoil.news) at the police behaviour and allegations from *Rebel News* on social media, others have simply used the opportunity to blast the highly controversial outlet, which is often dismissed in mainstream media as a *“far-right”* enterprise pushing misinformation.

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Montreal on Saturday saw a mass protest against the strict Covid-19 measures recently imposed by the authorities in Quebec. An 8pm curfew has been reintroduced in the city, while all the non-essential businesses and schools have been told to shut down until at least April 19\. According to the independent news outlet *Westphalian Times*, the organizers of the protest march sought to highlight the *“negative impacts restrictions in schools have on the well-being & development of children.”*

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