Two schools in the area were briefly locked down following the incident.
Montreal police say four teenagers were stabbed during a Thursday afternoon altercation in a St-Michel alleyway and that two of them have been arrested.
Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant said two 15-year-olds and one 19-year-old are in a hospital and that the two 15-year-olds are under arrest.
All of them are conscious and none of their lives are in danger, Brabant said.
Police were called to the alleyway, near the John F. Kennedy High School and John F. Kennedy Adult Education Centre, around 1 p.m. and found the 19-year-old with upper body wounds caused by a bladed weapon, Brabant said. He was taken to a hospital and was conscious at the time.
Officers searching the scene, near Villeray St. and 10th Ave., then found another 19-year-old with minor wounds to his upper body who did not require hospital treatment, Brabant said.
Police later learned that two 15-year-olds had also been taken to hospitals with wounds from a bladed weapon, he said. Investigators met with them Thursday afternoon and they were placed under arrest.
Anthony Baas, a student at the adult education centre, told The Gazette that he is friends with one of the 19-year-old victims. He said the attacker had used a kitchen knife.
Baas said the altercation was related to an ongoing conflict between students at the nearby École secondaire Joseph-François-Perrault and students at the adult education centre. He said a group of students from the French-language high school recently came to attack students at the adult education centre.
Baas showed a Gazette reporter a video of multiple young people hitting other young people with sticks. He said the video was from Wednesday and showed Joseph-François-Perrault students hitting students from John F. Kennedy. The Gazette could not confirm the authenticity of the video. About 30 or 40 students had been involved in the altercation, Baas said.
Two schools in the area — the adult education centre and a high school, which share a building — were locked down following the incident, but Brabant said the situation at both schools had returned to normal before 3 p.m.
Jesse Raglione, another witness who attends the adult education centre, told The Gazette that about four people from Joseph-François-Perrault were present at the time of the stabbing. He said altercations had been ongoing between students from both schools and said the aggressors originated from Joseph-François-Perrault.
“We don’t yet know all the details of this event, but as a father and public security minister, I find it extremely sad to see young people going though a situation like this. Violence is never the answer,” François Bonnardel said in a statement Thursday afternoon.