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Administrators at the Université du Québec à Montréal called the cops on Wednesday after several days of disruptions on campus.

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Montreal police confirmed that they were in the process of arresting over a dozen protesters on the campus shortly before 3 p.m. Officers were also chasing down a few additional protesters who fled.

It was the second police intervention of the day at the school. At about 10:30 a.m., police received a call from administrators and entered the university’s Judith Jasmin building in order to help “restore order.” In what has become a familiar scene at the school, masked protesters had gathered and attempted to disrupt classes shortly after 9 a.m. as part of broader strike action to protest the provincial government’s austerity measures.

In the end, the police officers did not intervene in any way during that first protest, said Montreal police spokesperson Ian Lafrenière, as the demonstrators had dispersed by the time they arrived.