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A man and woman were attacked outside a Montreal bar late Saturday while trying to remove fascist propaganda from a street sign, witnesses say.

Jonathan Turcotte Summers said he was walking along Ontario St. that night when he saw a young couple who appeared to be shaken up.

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“They seemed very agitated,” Turcotte Summers said. “They just happened to see a sticker from a neo-fascist group and when they went to take it down, they were attacked.

“It was three men, two women … they shoved one and then the other victim. Then they said that: ‘If you take the sticker down we’ll kill you.'”

No one called police and the assailants fled on foot. Tucotte Summers was not there at the time of the incident, but two witnesses confirmed his account of the events to the Montreal Gazette.

The stickers belong to Atalante Québec — an extreme-right group that stages anti-immigration rallies and boasts of its ties to the skinhead band Légitime Violence. Some of its posters refer to non-whites as “parasites” and to liberals as “traitors.”