6-month sentences for 2 G20 vandals

Two men have pleaded guilty to six charges that were laid during the G20 summit in Toronto in June 2010.

The men were sentenced in Quebec Superior Court in Montreal on Friday to six months in custody.

Youri Couture, 25, pleaded guilty to charges that included assaulting a peace officer and endangering the public’s safety by smashing a glass window of a Starbucks at 450 Yonge St. The estimated damage at that coffee shop was $18,233.85, police said.

On June 26, 2010, Couture, who was dressed in mostly black and covered his face with a black-and-red bandana, was captured on video throwing a rock through the Starbucks window. In another incident, he also threw a long wooden post over a crowd of protesters and into a line of police officers at the intersection of Queen and John streets, police say.

Guillaume Constantineau, 32, pleaded guilty to charges, including assaulting a peace officer and endangering the public’s safety by smashing a Winners glass window at 444 Yonge St. on the same day. The damage to that storefront was $21,000.

Constantineau, who wore a black mask over the lower portion of his face, committed additional offences when he used a wooden stake to hit a police officer over the head.

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