FOLLOWING THE END OF THE TRUCKER SIEGE, POLICE RECOVER THE CAPITAL OF CANADA.

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After a large police operation ended a drawn-out siege by protesters against Covid health guidelines, the last giant rigs were pulled out of Canada's capital on Sunday, and the streets were peaceful for the first time in nearly a month.

A large clean-up operation was beginning in Ottawa's icy downtown, where riot police had fought trucker-led protesters for two days, eventually pushing them out of their demonstration hub outside parliament.

Jeff Lindley, who lives and works downtown, told AFP, "I'm extremely delighted to get my city back." "It's so much better now, calmer and quieter without all the menacing trucks and demonstrators."

"Many of the unauthorised protestors are gone," Ottawa interim police Chief Steve Bell said at a press conference.

"We're not done with this operation yet," he stressed, adding that authorities were on the lookout to make sure "nobody returns to occupy our streets again."

Outside a hurriedly erected four-meter-high (13-foot) security fence enclosing the parliamentary precinct, a few protestors stayed late into Saturday night, singing '80s protest anthems and blowing off fireworks.

However, a bitter frost enveloped the city, and the last-ditch protest-turned-street-party failed.

'There are cops everywhere.'

Early Sunday, police were stationed at checkpoints barring access to a 500-acre (200-hectare) downtown area, while a large contingent was ready to defend the land seized from the truckers.

Only a few protestors were seen by an AFP correspondent in the vicinity, testing the boundaries.

After walking for hours with a Canadian flag in hand, one man who only revealed his name as John said he was packing it up.

He told AFP, "It's pretty sealed down, all I see is cops everywhere."

Ottawa police reminded residents and workers that the core area is still off-limits, and warned any lingering protestors to leave or face arrest.

 

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