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A small, silent group of protesters moved through the halls of UQAM’s J.-A.-DeSève building on Thursday morning, 10 hours after police broke up the occupation of that building by demonstrators. The demonstration lasted about 15 minutes.

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All classes at that building were cancelled and such offices as financial aid were closed while staff started to repair the damage. There was garbage strewn across the floor, broken glass, looted vending machines and graffiti to clean up.

The chaos began Wednesday evening when protesters gathered in the building and barricaded the doors with tables, chairs and other furniture.

Just after midnight on Thursday, several Montreal police officers made a large hole in a window of the pavilion entrance. The doors had been blocked with multiple objects.

The occupants, who were denouncing the arrest of more than 20 people early in the day, fled via a back door. A sign was thrown through the window of a police van and four other vehicles were also damaged.