Two restaurants firebombed overnight
Two restaurants were firebombed overnight, one in Old Montreal and the other in Montreal North. Nobody got hurt.
(Trivia: Note that one of these businesses is on “Saint‑Jacques Ouest” although there’s no St‑Jacques East, the street ending where it meets St‑Laurent at the Palais de Justice. But people still write that from habit.)
shawn 09:39 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
So then a fire-bombing just steps from the Palais de justice…
thomas 10:01 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
Why are the establishments not named? I’m guessing the resto/bar on St-Jacques is Sauvage.
Kate 10:42 on 2023-06-29 Permalink
thomas, I’ve commented on that tendency before, in this item and this one. I’ve never seen a clear explanation why this is so, but you have to know that everything published by a major media outlet is vetted by lawyers, who seem to have decided en bloc some decades ago that it’s better not to specify the business or location in cases like this, so that it gets described in vaguer terms.
But this may not be the only reason. I should query some editors on the reasoning.
TVA sometimes gets around this proscription by revealing the name or address of the business in an accompanying photo, but our other local media don’t even take that chance. In this case, TVA shows us a photo of the Montreal North business, which is easily identified on Google Streetview, but it’s more discreet about the Old Montreal location.
Edited to add: La Presse’s version of the story confirms it’s Sauvage.