Mayor asks indignés to leave Victoria Square

The indignés were just promising some new actions when Mayor Tremblay asked them to leave Victoria Square with their heads held high. More stories may emerge, but a picture of the problems with homeless folks with whom the indignés had neither the resources nor the experience to cope is coming into focus.

I’m wondering: were the police told to back off and not intervene, and let the indignés try to handle troublesome itinerants on their own, as a sort of lesson?