MONTREAL, April 4 (UPI) -- Montreal police said they arrested half of about 100 student protesters who led them on a chase throughout the downtown core Wednesday morning.
The protest against coming tuition hikes began around 8 a.m. and students led police on foot, bicycles and in patrol cars chasing them into subway stations and through the city center, The (Montreal) Gazette reported.
An hour and a half later police tweeted, "The demonstration over," the report said.
During the incident, fireworks were set off at the landmark Queen Elizabeth hotel and the Eaton Center retail mall, police said.
Police said the protest hadn't been registered and was illegal.
Officers were also investigating a bomb threat at the west-end campus of Concordia University, although nothing was found, the report said.
There have been numerous protests, many of them violent, since the provincial Liberal government announced three years of tuition increases that will still make Quebec the cheapest province in Canada for college and university education.
