30 cars set ablaze in Montreal, latest in a string of arsons targeting businesses

Montreal police are investigating after more than two dozen vehicles were set ablaze this morning in an industrial sector of a southwestern borough.

They are the latest fires in a spate of arson cases across the greater Montreal area this year targeting vehicles and businesses.

Const. Véronique Dubuc says police have not ruled out a link between today’s cases, in which a total of 30 vehicles were torched in two separate lots not far from each other in the Lachine borough.

Montreal police chief Fady Dagher says police are investigating a string of arsons targeting Lebanese cafés, whose owners are being allegedly punished for refusing to submit to extortion attempts.