More than a week after Winnipeg police charged the owners of BerMax Caffe and Bistro with staging a robbery and hate crime, officers got a search warrant to seize evidence from the Corydon Avenue business. Family claims innocenceIn an April 24 interview with CBC the Berents claimed they were innocent and maintained they were the victims of a hate crime. In an April interview with CBC News, Oxana and Maxim Berent maintained they were victims of a hate crime, and denied staging the anti-Semitic attack. Police have publicly accused the Berents of vandalizing their business and spraying anti-Semiti graffiti on April 18, then falsely claiming they were victims of a hate crime. "We found evidence of a crime, it just wasn't a hate crime," Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth told reporters at the time.

Source: CBC News May 29, 2019 09:56 UTC