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Masked Thug Attacks Rebel News Cameraman, Leaves Him Bloodied and Hospitalized With Four Stitches

On Saturday, November 29 in Montreal, Alexa Lavoie's cameraman Guillaume Roy was violently attacked by a masked Antifa thug during a labour union protest.

Guillaume was filming on the sidewalk when the attacker came up from behind, grabbed his backpack, and yanked him backwards onto the pavement. It was a cowardly ambush. Guillaume suffered a deep cut to his elbow that required four stitches, and was treated in hospital after receiving emergency aid from Montreal police on scene.

Alexa and Guillaume were surrounded by Antifa moments before the assault. They were pushed, harassed, and boxed in simply for doing their jobs — and then Guillaume was pulled to the ground in a sudden, violent takedown.

Montreal police have arrested the attacker, though we still do not have his name.

These extremists think they can silence us through violence. They’re wrong. We will not back down, we will not be intimidated, and we will continue telling the truth on the ground — no matter how ugly it gets.

Masked thugs, shielded by Montreal police, tried to shut down Rebel News at an Antifa rally!

On Sunday, November 23, the Rebel News Quebec team took to the streets with four security personnel to cover a protest organized by the Antifascist Popular Front in Montreal. The demonstration, titled “Facing the Rise of the Far Right: Popular Resistance,” drew roughly a hundred participants, many wearing keffiyehs and carrying Antifa flags.

According to the group’s Facebook event, the protest was meant to denounce what they describe as an “authoritarian turn” among several Western governments in recent years. Organizers also criticized Quebec Premier François Legault’s “fixation” on secularism in schools and public institutions — a reference to the 17 schools currently under investigation for alleged breaches of Quebec’s secularism law and the debate surrounding public prayer spaces.

Upon their arrival, Montreal police approached Alexa and Guillaume and warned that they could be arrested if they moved toward the protest. Officers said they were only permitted to report from the opposite side of the street, where speaking to demonstrators would be nearly impossible.

👀 Demonstration in Montreal against what organizers describe as the ‘RISE of the FAR-RIGHT.’ pic.twitter.com/74lgwoDgpt
— Alexandra Lavoie (@ThevoiceAlexa) November 24, 2025

Suddenly, two men walked directly toward our team. Our security personnel intercepted them, after which the two men — one of them recording — became aggressive, shouting insults and pushing our security staff and Alexa’s microphone. They followed them until the man in a red cap moved toward Guillaume and struck both him and his camera. Security intervened physically, and Guillaume attempted to identify the masked individual, who posed a clear threat to our team.

Montreal police, who were parked nearby, took a complaint from the man in the red cap but refused to take ours. Officers ultimately arrested Guillaume for assault, despite Alexa attempting to show video evidence that the two men had harassed, intimidated, assaulted, and followed them.

This incident highlights, once again, what appears to be a two-tiered approach to policing on the streets of Montreal.

If you recognize the man who assaulted our team, please reach out to [email protected].

Until the authorities do their job, we have to do ours: protect our journalists.

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We don’t have the luxury of waiting. Every day Alexa is out there, face-to-face with extremists who want to shut down the story. If the government won’t shield journalists from intimidation, then it falls to citizens like you to help us do it.

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Journalism should never require bodyguards and home fortifications. But in 2025 Canada, that’s where we are. Help us protect Alexa so she can keep doing what almost no one else will: expose the truth, calmly and fearlessly.

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