In the meantime, some context on the "vague bleu" organizers by @MontrealAntifahttps://montreal-antifasciste.info/en/2019/04/26/the-racist-islamophobic-fringe-of-quebec-nationalism-comes-out-to-play/ …
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Today is the "vague bleu" in Montreal, maybe the largest far right demonstration in Quebec in a long time. It's a demo in favour of the prov. gov't's ban on hijabs for public sector workers. A few hundred people are assembled for a counter demo. Will post updates through the day
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The counter demo is moving. Chanting "tout le monde deteste les racistes," or "everybody hates racists"pic.twitter.com/UAlTxzhHdq
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Some far right activists are already at their meetup point, an hour early. Under heavy police protection, both local and provincial police.pic.twitter.com/99ET8tO8qr
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This cop just pointed a rubber bullet gun at my face, and threatened to shoot the people taking photos of himpic.twitter.com/g4WSnkHMt2
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So the counter demo got close to the far right, amd the police immediately tear gassed the counter demo. Will check my video later but it all happened very fast
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Just got chased through an alley by cops on bikes, they charged straight into a crowd of people. Also almost got hit by a riot van. Shit is chaos
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The counter demonstration is pretty dispersed. I'm with a guy who was shot in the face with a tear gas canister, on his nose right between the eyes.
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Having been to multiple counter demonstrations as a journalist, I've never seen a police violence like this. As soon as anti-racist protesters got within shouting distance of the far right, police immediately and brutally attacked the counter protest, to cheers from the far right
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Despite being brutally dispersed, the counter demonstration is regrouping at the original meetup point. Few hundred people here again. Not sure what's going to happen, lots of cops around.
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The counter demonstration is right at the far right. No police dispersal happening yet. Seeing decent III% militia presence on the far right side, including Robert Proulx, the guy in the first photopic.twitter.com/s48FZJCT96
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*sorry, they're calling themselves the "groupe de secruité patriotique" now, not the III%
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Occasionally straddlers from the far right demo accidentally walk into the counter demo, very confused. In most cases, anti-racists are just talking with them and explaining their opposition to the far right. One known far right dude who was provoking anti-racists got chased out
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Among the far right demonstrators still in the Vague Bleu is Maxime Morin, also known as DMS, a open neo-nazi anti-semite youtuber who participated in the Montreal Storm group chat with figures from the Daily Stormerpic.twitter.com/9XBFZM4h5W
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Looks like this is over, the far right protesters have mostly left. Anti-racist counter protesters are leaving as well. Overall, while far right numbers were larger than usual, it wasn't the mass mobilization that worst-case-scenarios predicted.
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The far right were able to march after police violently attacked anti-racist counter demonstrators, a really dramatic escalation in police violence compared to previous counter demonstrations.
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Though there were unfortunately some representatives of the far right, I would not use that adjective to describe the whole protest.
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Sure, not all of the participants were far right. But the organizers of the demonstration + many of the groups that signed on, are. La Meute, Storm Alliance, III%, GSP, etc. They organized the demonstration, so the demonstration is far right, even if not all participants were.
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I don't know if the Antifa web page is a reliable source for information.
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I personally saw members of all those groups in the demonstration today. They had a highly visible presence.
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That's depressing. Most people who support
#bill21 are just regular folks. - 1 weitere Antwort
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