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When she met Nicolas Congé 16 years ago, they christened themselves Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile and played together from 2006 to 2011, although they’re still a couple.

“We are a peaceful, tolerant, free society. The horrific violence on Toronto’s Conge Street will strengthen rather than undermine these truths,” columnist John Ibbitson wrote in the Globe and Mail national newspaper.

Erdem and his colleague Kamil Conge, a 45-year-old field manager, had a combined 30 years of experience on the beach.

An inch beneath the dirt, Conge said, there was a layer of concrete that extended most of the way to the shore – a recent addition, before which the yard became a muddy horror whenever it rained.

In those days, Conge said, a ship “could take a year to dismantle”.