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Anti-prostitution Facebook group dismantled

A Montreal-based Facebook group created to fight street prostitution in the city’s east end has been shut down for security reasons.

The group, called Prostitution en plein jour, was an online forum for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve residents concerned about the problems of public sex, drug use and drug dealing in the modest working-class neighbourhood.

Hundreds of people joined the group on the social networking site, where residents would post pictures of sex workers or drug dealers spotted on the street and gripe about police inaction.

But last week, the group’s administrators announced they were dismantling the Facebook page, saying it had become increasingly dangerous to the neighbourhood. Photos posted on the site have been removed.

“Some group members [posted] negative things, and it’s dangerous for members, because drug dealers or pimps could [attack them],” group member Frédéric Leroux, a Hochelaga-Maisonneuve resident, told CBC News.