Man charged after security incident on Hill’s east lawn

No one was injured in the incident, which took place in the morning during the Changing of the Guard parade on the Hill.

Chief of Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance, centre, and former Canadian Army commander Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk, behind, are pictured at the change-of-command ceremony on Parliament Hill last week. A man was arrested during a routine Changing of the Guard ceremony on Monday. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY THE HILL TIMES STAFF

July 23, 2018

A 24-year-old man was charged with assault after a security incident on Monday on Parliament Hill. Jesse Mooney has been charged by Ottawa police with assault and breach of probation, the police said in a statement on Twitter. ...

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