The Ottawa police hate crime unit is looking for a man suspected of carving a message into the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Police said in a news release the suspect rode a bike on Oct. 16 to the downtown National War Memorial, the site of the annual national Remembrance Day ceremony, scratched hate graffiti onto the tomb and rode away. Anyone with information is asked to contact a Hate Crime Investigations Unit detective at 613-236-1222 extension 5453 or to leave an anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers. A bronzesmith restored the helmet on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Sat., Oct. 17, 2020, after it was vandalized. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a grave containing the remains of an unknown Canadian soldier from a cemetery near Vimy Ridge, flown back to Canada and buried again in 2000.

Source: CBC News October 23, 2020 13:09 UTC