The Montreal police’s hate crime unit is seeking collaboration from the public in identifying three suspects in an assault on two victims committed on Oct. 12 in downtown Montreal.

At about 9:15 p.m., according to police, two members of the Black community were heading north on Crescent St. on foot. At the intersection of Crescent and Sherbrooke St., the three suspects began to hurl racist slurs at them and then, in front of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, attacked the victims, throwing them to the ground and proceeding to strike and kick them, police said.

One of the three threatened to stab them by making a move toward the cross-body bag he was carrying, police said. The suspects then fled east along Sherbrooke.

The suspects, all aged about 20, told their victims that they were of A

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