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At 2:55 a.m. a person — the security footage is too grainy to determine the gender — scrawls a message on the side of the Bar Sportif on Laurier Ave. in Plateau central.

Then he/she walks down the street and back again, to add a pink heart.

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This is not a message of love, however, but rather hate graffiti, exalting members of the far right, and spreading their anti-immigrant ideology.

“Save Richard Spencer,” it said on a few walls, including that of the local police station, referring to the notorious American white supremacist.

“Hail Warski,” read another, possibly referring to a similarly minded alt-right Canadian YouTuber.

“JF Gariepy King of the World” appeared twice, including on the wall of the Bar Sportif, with pink hearts and happy faces.



(Jean-François Gariépy is a French-Canadian who makes videos with Spencer extolling his white nationalist values.)

“I looked him up,” said Anne Labrecque, an employee at the Bar Sportif who discovered the graffiti on two of the bar’s exterior walls when she arrived for work in the morning. “He wants to make “ethno-states.” I had never heard of him. From what I’ve read, I don’t agree with him.”