Machetegate: The Final Chapter?

Found this in a G&M story this morning re Anti-Semitism on Canadian campuses:

Just a few months ago, for example, two Carleton University students reported being attacked by fellow students wielding a machete at an off-campus bar; the attackers berated them as “Jews” and “Zionists.”


I've written about this story on numerous occasions. If you recall, back in April several Carlton students, one Jewish and the other a proclaimed non-Jewish Zionist, claimed to have been attacked outside the Le Volt night-club in Gatineau Quebec by machete-wielding Arabs. Back then, I pointed out a number of inconsistencies in their claims; for example, the alleged victims, Mark Klibanov and Nick Bergamini, had told the media that they faced these Arabs alone while at the same time revealing on their various Facebook pages that they had been accompanied by a third person, this third companion's existence confirmed later via police reports.

In any event, Carleton wound-up for the summer and, since one of the alleged attackers was supposedly a student, the case fell by the wayside, with the Mark and Nick hoping they might be able to identify the perp(s) when school resumed this Fall.

But apparently not. After reading the Globe story, I fired off an email to Isabelle Poirier, PR person for the Gatineau Police, and was informed earlier this morning:

Good morning!

There is no more information in this file. The victim was met by the investigator but we don’t have enough proof for make an arrest and put accusations. The file is closed for now. If we have more information in the future, we’ll open it again.

Have a good day!

A rather unsatisfactory ending, and one that does nothing to mitigate my origional suspicions that the claims made by Klibanov and Bergamini were trumped up or imaginary.

Machetegate To Date

This is old news (May 25th), but its about the latest I've heard re the alleged assault upon Carleton University students Mark Klibanov, a native of Israel, and Nick Bergamini, a self professed Zionist:

Arrests have yet to be made in the case of an anti-Semitic assault with a machete against two Carelton University students in Ottawa, but one of the victims of the April 5 early morning attack says that he expects more progress to be made in the investigation when students return to campus this fall.

So everyone, it appears, has gone home for summer break, and the investigation waits for their return when, presumably, our two victims get another chance at identifying the assailant that they claim to have seen around the Carlton campus. Klibanov's account here more or less jibes with the original one on Bergamini's facebook page. Neither mentions the third person that accompanied Klibanov and Bergamini that night, who has been made note of in the police accounts and alluded to by Klibanov here.

Machetegate: A Quick Update

As of this moment, we have 40 MSM stories on the adventures of Nick Bergamini and Mark Klibanov and no new information. There is, however, this mysterious post on Mr. Klibanov's Facebook page:
The knife vs. machete distinction is not so important--but a three on three fight? Where did the third guy come from suddenly? He's definitely talking about the same incident; his link goes to Bergamini's original account.

PS. Tim Hudak has denounced the alleged attack, and the Jewish Defense League (JDL) is off to Ottawa to knock some heads together.