Montreal Bakery Hit in May Day Chaos

0:00It's May 2nd. This is Canada News today, AI-powered stories from your city, I'm Corey with the story. Early Friday morning around 8 a.m., a group of masked people hit a Mamie Clifoutus bakery on St. Anise Street in Montreal. They grabbed goods, filled bags, sprayed graffiti on the front window, shouted anti-capitalist slogans, and bounced without paying. No fights broke out, and cops haven't made any arrests yet. The bakery fired back on Instagram with video of the smash and grab, calling it straight up theft, not activism. They stressed there are local Quebec's by hiring neighborhood folks and using regional suppliers, so this hurts real workers, not some big system. This went down amid May Day vibes across the city, even though it's not a holiday here in Canada. Thursday night, a similar crew looted a Maxi Grocery in Rosemond, tagging the place too, but police aren't sure if it's linked. Friday evening, a protest kicked off at Square Victoria, marched downtown, and got rowdy around 8.30 p.m.

1:00Some threw stuff at officers, leading to 14 arrests, including one for assaulting a cop. Police hit back with pepper spray to break it up, no building damage reported. Montreal cops are digging into all these cases now, watching for patterns on this international workers' day chaos that crossed the line from protest to crime. Stay tuned as they sort it out.