BC Court evacuated during Pickton appeal trial; Bomb Threat

by Linda Solomon
Many lawyers are drinking coffee right now at the Cafe France on Nelson and Hornby after an alarming announcement to "evacuate the building immediately" which interrupted court proceedings ranging from the Pickton appeal and Susan Heyes's compensation claim against a variety of defendants in the RAV line case.  Grim looking police officers scanned the building as people poured out of the court building and congregated in the plaza, seeking shelter from the rain by the building.  But about fifteen minutes later, two police officers told people to evacuate that area as well.

"This is more serious than any other bomb threat I've experienced," a lawyer who had been arguing a matrimony said, while waiting in a long line for coffee.

"I think that something is democracy needs to controlled a little bit to make us safer,"  said a man who identified  himself as a shoe store owner of Jwalk Shoes at the Oakridge Mall. 

Read more about it on:  The Vancouver Observer