Montreal police arrest a suspect after alleged attack on Jewish father in a park.
They say the suspect was arrested Monday and was being met by investigators.
Police say the alleged assault happened Friday afternoon when the 32-year-old father was with his young children at a splash pad in a park in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough.
The suspect allegedly sprayed the man with the contents of his water bottle before pushing him to the ground and punching and kneeing him.
The alleged incident, which was partly captured on video, was widely condemned by members of the political class including Prime Minister Mark Carney and Quebec Premier François Legault.
Police say they will submit their investigation report to the Crown prosecutor's office, which is responsible for laying charges.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 11, 2025.
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Video captured by a witness shows a man being repeatedly punched in a Montreal park (left) and what appears to be his kippah being thrown into a splash pad (right). Mayer Feig/X 'It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst,' the Swiss philosopher Pascal Mercier wrote, many years ago. 'The worst is the humiliation.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The Nazis knew that. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, widespread public humiliation of Jews commenced. In one notorious case, a young Jewish man named Julius Wolff and his non-Jewish fiancee, Christine Neeman, were taken by the Nazis' brown shirts — the Sturmabteilung — in Norden, Germany, and forced to parade through the streets wearing signs. Wolff's said: 'Ich bin ein Rasseschänder' — that is, 'I am a race defiler.' Wolff and Neeman were later taken to concentration camps. Julius Wolff forced to wear a sign because of his non-Jewish fiancee, Christine Neeman. For the Nazis, public humiliation of Jews, and those who would consort with Jews, wasn't something that just happened by chance. It was something that was central to their program of oppression of the Jews and non-Aryans, from the very start. It was all designed to inflict suffering on Jews. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But — and this is key — it was also how the Nazis drew a distinction between Jews and non-Jews. Ritual public humiliations were a way to remind ordinary Germans that Jews were not human — they were, as the Nazi propaganda of the time repeatedly proclaimed, parasites. They were vermin, ungeziefer, infecting the corpus of the Third Reich and the world. We don't know what the man who assaulted a Jew in a Montreal park a few days ago was thinking, at this point. We likely never will — his defence lawyers will be working overtime to ensure that the judge, or the jury, never hears a solitary word about antisemitism. So, we will be left to wonder: Was it an argument that simply escalated? A case of mistaken identity? Just an unstable person, assaulting a man in broad daylight, in front of his children? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We still don't know. But there is the video footage, which has now been seen by many people around the world — and, we are told, was shot by a Muslim woman who was appalled by what she was seeing. The video starts with the victim, a 32-year-old father, on the ground at Dickie-Moore Park in Montreal, being punched and kneed by a man. Montreal Gazette reporter Jesse Feth describes the scene: 'In the video, the suspect can be seen repeatedly punching the victim while he is on the ground. A little girl can be heard yelling as she stands beside and then clings to the victim, who manages to make it back on his knees and eventually stands. The video ends with the suspect walking away and throwing what appears to be a kippah on the wet ground near a fountain … The victim was hospitalized following the attack and suffered a broken nose.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It's that last bit — the kippah, the head covering worn by observant Jewish men, to show reverence to God — that is the tell, perhaps. Beating a man in front of his child, humiliating him, is of course bad enough. But why pick up the kippah, a religious symbol, and fling it into the muddy water? Why do that? That is what an antisemite, a Nazi, would do. A man has now been arrested, and the Montreal police have not deigned to provide us with his name. He will likely be charged with something — assault, and perhaps a hate crime — and he will have his day in court. Days later, some remain shocked by what happened, but some shrug. Prime Minister Mark Carney, for example, posted something about his cat on the day the video emerged — and only condemned the attack in an X post the next day. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. What about that father? What about that child? Will they ever forget the humiliation of that moment? Will they be able to look past the ignominy and degradation of that day? Will we ever know why the man in the footage allegedly did such a terrible thing? Why, why? Read More The answers may lay in the past. Many years ago, a British journalist asked the Treblinka death camp commandant Franz Stangl why the Nazis humiliated their victims. Said the journalist: 'Why, if they (the Nazis) were going to kill them (the victims) anyway, what was the point of all the humiliation, why the cruelty?' Stangl said: 'To condition those who actually had to carry out the policies. 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