Charges have been dropped against four of the 11 people charged with hate-motivated crimes after an Indigo bookstore was vandalized last fall, Toronto police say.
In a statement, Toronto Police Service spokesperson Stephanie Sayer confirmed the Crown had dropped the charges, citing no “reasonable prospect of conviction.”
Seven other people are still being prosecuted in connection with the Nov. 10, 2023, vandalism of the Indigo bookstore at Bay and Bloor streets, which included a number of posters accusing CEO Heather Reisman, who is Jewish, of funding genocide, while red paint was also splashed across a glass door.
At the time, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies called it “a vile antisemitic attack,” while dozens of protestors gathered outside 52 Division to protest the charges, saying Reisman had been targeted for her political activity, not the fact that she is Jewish.
More to come.