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A Montreal couple is filing a police report after they were attacked and had their lives threatened by defenders of a fascist group last weekend.

“Matthew” and his girlfriend were out for a night on the town Saturday when they walked into an Ontario St. pub and noticed something strange; a table full of black-clad men and women, most of them heavily tattooed and wearing shirts that read “Québec au Québécois.”

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“At first I thought they were just (Quebec) nationalists, but when I heard what they were saying, it was clear they were more like skinheads,” said Matthew, who does not want his real name published for fear of reprisals.

“We had to leave the bar because I wanted to confront them and it just wasn’t worth it.”

They walked for a few blocks and settled at a bar in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. As he sat on a terrace facing the street, Matthew saw five people putting up stickers for the far-right group Atalante Québec. He said he recognized them from earlier that night.