Freedom convoy leader Tamara Lich arrested in Alberta, accused of breaching bail conditions
Freedom Convoy chief Tamara Lich has been re-arrested in Drugs Hat, Alta., for breaching her bail situations, her legal professionals have confirmed.
Lich was taken into custody Monday night, in accordance with Keith Wilson, who represents Lich on her non-criminal circumstances together with a lawsuit.
Wilson, who spoke with Lich after her arrest, says she expects to be transported again to Ottawa within the subsequent week.
Eric Granger, who’s one among Lich’s felony defence legal professionals additionally confirmed Lich’s arrest.
Granger says he has no purpose to imagine his consumer has finished something fallacious and is “seeking to study extra at this stage.”
“Based mostly on the whole lot we knew, she’s been diligently complying with all of her bail situations as was famous by the decide at her current bail assessment.
Whereas it”s not but clear which bail situations she is accused of breaching, there may be hypothesis on social media that Lich is likely to be in authorized hassle over a Fb picture that reveals her beside a fellow convoy organizer who she was ordered to avoid by a decide.
Canada-wide warrant
Lich faces fees of mischief, counselling mischief, obstructing police, counselling to impede police, counselling intimidation and intimidation by blocking and obstructing a number of highways for her position as one of many organizers of the protest that shut down a lot of downtown Ottawa earlier this yr.
RCMP confirmed Lich was wished on a Canada-wide warrant for breaching her launch order however didn’t have additional data because the arrest falls throughout the jurisdiction of the Drugs Hat Police Service (MHPS).
The MHPS says it won’t launch data till Tuesday morning.
The anti-COVID-19 restriction blockades gridlocked Ottawa for 3 weeks final winter as protesters parked vehicles that blocked neighbourhood entry and essential arteries round Parliament Hill.
After her arrest, Lich was launched on bail in March on situations which embody staying off social media. She can’t arrange any sort of protest and he or she can be not permitted to contact a number of of the opposite convoy leaders, together with Tom Marazzo, an ex-military officer, who additionally had a failed bid as an Ontario MPP candidate.
Lich was topic to a bail assessment final month the place prosecutors unsuccessfully sought to have her taken again into custody for allegedly violating her bail situation that she not help something associated to the Freedom Convoy.
Weeks after she was granted launch in March, Lich was notified she’d been chosen as a recipient of a freedom award, handed out by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a authorized group and registered charity based mostly in Calgary.
The awards ceremony occurred on June 16 in Toronto.
The Ottawa decide dominated he wouldn’t revoke Lich’s bail and as a substitute, diverse her situations to permit journey to Ontario with a restriction that she be banned from getting into the capital’s downtown core.
Lich’s reasoning for desirous to journey again to Ottawa is protected by a court-ordered publication ban and can’t be reported.
However on June 17, the day after the liberty awards had been offered, Stacey Kauder, who describes Lich as a buddy, posted a photograph to her Fb web page displaying Lich along with her husband and 4 different attendees on the JCCF gala.
To Lich’s left is a person recognized as Marazzo, a fellow convoy organizer, who she was ordered to haven’t any contact with until her lawyer is current.
Mates of the 2 convoy organizers speculated on social media that Lich was allowed to have contact with Marazzo on the occasion as a result of there have been legal professionals for the JCCF current who additionally symbolize Lich in her civil issues.