Information And Video Sought After Mischief To Captain Cook Statue

Date: Friday, July 2, 2021

File: 21-26148

Victoria, BC – Investigators are asking for information and video after the Captain Cook statue in Victoria was damaged yesterday evening.

Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 1^st, a group of people in the 700-block of Government Street dismantled the Captain Cook statue and threw it into the inner harbor. Investigators are asking for information and video of the incident.

Safe, peaceful and lawful protests are permitted under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Property damage is not.

There are several suspects in this incident. Photographs of two of the suspects are available below.

 

 

 

This incident remains under investigation.

If you have any information about this incident, or have video of the incident, please call the VicPD Report Desk at (250) 995-7654 extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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