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Montreal police were called to the Montreal offices of Vice, the online media organization, after a half-dozen men with alleged ties to the far-right group Atalante stormed into their offices Wednesday afternoon.

According to an article Vice posted on its website, the men stormed in “with the goal of intimidating its journalists.” The reporter, Simon Coutu, wrote that the men objected to a report Vice had published earlier about how the far-right group whose members are mostly based in Quebec City made recent efforts to recruit members in Montreal.

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Paul Labonté, head of creative at Vice Montreal, told the Montreal Gazette he was in the office and seated next to Coutu when six or more men stormed in. He said one man pretended to be delivering flowers and was buzzed in by an employee before the other men followed. The people at Vice who witnessed what happened believe the man who was carrying the flowers is the leader of Atalante Quebec, a far-right group that opposes immigration to Canada and refers to political leaders like Québec solidaire MNA Amir Khadir as “parasites.” In his article, Coutu reported that the leader was wearing sunglasses. Labonté said the other men were wearing masks.