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A Montreal man has filed a complaint with Élections Québec after he witnessed two women vandalizing campaign signs for a Muslim candidate running in Outremont.

Timothy Merlis shot a video — which he shared on social media — that shows two women vandalizing a sign defacing posters advertising the candidacy of Ève Torres, a Québec solidaire candidate who wears a hijab.

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In the video, shot on Sunday afternoon, one woman pulls the sign down, then the other writes “un état laïc” — “a secular state” in French — on Torres’s hijab.

Merlis, a McGill University professor, said he was jogging west on St-Viateur St. around 2:40 p.m. when he saw the women vandalizing another Torres sign in a similar manner.

Merlis said he was surprised to see this sort of vandalism in broad daylight so went ahead to the next Torres sign and prepared to film them.

Merlis said he was upset by the “Islamophobic actions” of the women and he has filed a report with Élections Québec.

Torres isn’t the only Muslim candidate to have their signs vandalized. Signs advertising Ali Dahan, an independent candidate running in a Quebec City riding, saw his signs riddled with projectiles from an air gun. Dahan also received death threats.