Montreal police are investigating after widely-circulating videos seemingly show a man directing threats at pro-Palestinian demonstrators and appearing to strike a photographer outside city hall on Monday.
In one video, the man can be heard calling demonstrators “f*cking Nazis” and warning them, “This is gonna be a f*cking civil war, and you’re all gonna pay.” He later shouts, “You’re all colonizers” and “Free the Middle East from the Arab colonizers,” before appearing to hit a photographer in the face.
The SPVM confirmed Thursday that its hate crimes unit is investigating the incident, but declined to say whether anyone has been arrested or charged.