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Ottawa police want the victims of four “serious” physical attacks against members of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning) community over the last five weeks to come forward, including one who was choked last Friday.

Insp. John McGetrick, co-chair of a police-community liaison committee, said coming forward to police with information doesn’t mean charges will be laid. The committee is focused on community-based crime prevention.

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“We want to make it clear to them that coming to talk to us doesn’t mean they are committed to anything,” McGetrick said.

Gary Leger, the community co-chair for committee, said three of the four attacks happened early in the morning in the Village area near Centretown Pub on Somerset Street West.

All three victims were men and, in two of the cases, they were attacked by one woman and two men.

The victim of the latest attack on Feb. 27 reported being choked by a man on Somerset Street near Bronson Avenue in the early morning hours, said Leger, who was asked by the victim not to disclose his or her gender or other details.