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They parked across the street from his apartment.

No one got out of the car at first. Instead, the anti-fascists waited for more than half an hour, hoping to catch a glimpse of someone coming in or out of the building, hoping to ID their target: Zeiger.

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For nine months they chased the infamous neo-Nazi — scouring the web for clues that might link him to someone in the real world.

Their search took them to weird places: from YouTube videos about magic Nazi frogs to a series of Quebec funeral notices and, finally, a photo of a 16-year-old boy in a high school yearbook.

Now it had led them to a quiet street corner near a playground in the Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie borough. With any luck, Zeiger would peek his head out the door just long enough to be identified.

About 40 minutes had passed when they decided one of them should casually walk up to the apartment and see if anyone was inside. They rang the bell and walked away.