MONTREAL — Members of Montreal’s Maghrebi community are gathering in a city park this afternoon to sound the alarm about what they call the “scourge” of street gangs recruiting youth to carry out criminal acts.
Event organizer Hadjira Belkacem says parents need to come together to reclaim their children from gangs and demand authorities investigate how kids are falling prey to the alleged recruitment.
Today's gathering of people with roots in northern Africa follows several recent incidents in the province, including the death of a 14-year-old boy of Algerian descent who media reports say was found near a Hells Angels-linked bunker in Frampton, Que., about 50 kilometres southeast of Quebec City. The province's public security minister has publicly acknowledged the issue in recent weeks, and Belkacem says the teen's death is not the only one to raise concerns among community members.
“It starts at 12, 13, 14-years-old. Street gangs ask them to steal cars, go out and kill, that sort of thing… They recruit kids to do their dirty work,” she said. “We know because we've been called by several families asking for help and telling us that, 'my child has been recruited into a gang.'”
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