{"id":57835,"date":"2025-08-09T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57835\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:14:14","slug":"montreal-father-assaulted-in-front-of-his-children-leads-to-outrage-from-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57835\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal father assaulted in front of his children leads to outrage from officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 9, 2025 4:19 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police are investigating after a father was attacked in the city\u2019s Villeray\u2014Saint-Michel\u2014Parc-Extension borough on Friday afternoon, caught partly on video by a bystander.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police say no arrests have been made as the 32-year-old man who was with his three children was struck several times by a suspect around 2:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged assault was first reported by the Journal de Montr\u00e9al, which released a video showing a man being beaten by another man, alongside young children.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today in Montreal Jewish father with 3 kids beaten in an unprovoked attack, seemingly by a disturbed person, words have consequences. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Val_Plante?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Val_Plante<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPVM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SPVM<\/a> why did it take for the SPVM over an hour to respond? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MufsGoDMjW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/MufsGoDMjW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayer Feig (@mayerfeig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mayerfeig\/status\/1953934217735537075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Const. Manuel Couture says the reasons behind the assault are not known and the injuries suffered by the victim are deemed non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11324260\/royal-caribbean-water-slide-panel-breaks\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754777653_693_royal-carribean-slide.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRoyal Caribbean passenger injured after cruise ship water slide breaks\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11324243\/ccf-nova-scotia-legal-threat-forest-fires-woods-ban\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754777654_564_CP174361094.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGroup threatens N.S. with legal action over \u2018grossly disproportionate\u2019 woods ban\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante says in a social media post that she was troubled by the \u201cviolent and unacceptable attack\u201d and says Montreal police will get to the bottom of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel, who represents the Papineau riding in the House of Commons where the attack took place, said on X she strongly condemns the \u201cunprovoked assault of a Jewish father, attacked in front of his children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Skeete, Quebec\u2019s minister responsible for the fight against racism, also took to X, noting the hatred on display must stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply disturbed by this video showing a member of the Jewish community being attacked for no reason in front of his child, whose cries can be heard,\u201d Skeete said. \u201cAll Quebecers have the right to live in safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 9, 2025 4:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,38248,38249,44],"class_list":["post-57835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-montreal-crime","tag-montreal-police","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}