Ex-Second Cup franchisee charged with uttering threats after antisemitic incident at protest

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· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 6:33 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

WARNING: The communicative beneath contains antisemitic remarks.

A pistillate filmed making antisemitic remarks and performing a Nazi salute astatine a protest successful Montreal successful November has been charged with uttering threats.

According to tribunal documents, Mai Abdulhadi, 40, was charged with uttering threats to origin decease oregon bodily harm, arsenic good as threats to harm property.

The alleged incidental happened outside Concordia University connected Nov. 21, 2024 and led to the termination of Abdulhadi's franchise statement with Second Cup and the closure of the 2 café locations she operated astatine Montreal's Jewish General Hospital.

The protest Abdulhadi allegedly attended was organized in the discourse of CEGEP and university students successful Montreal striking and calling for Quebec post-secondary institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel and urging the national authorities to instrumentality a stance against the ongoing warfare successful Gaza.

After reviewing videos of the protest, Peter Mammas, the president and CEO of Foodtastic (which owns the Second Cup java chain), confirmed that the pistillate raising her limb successful a Nazi salute and making antisemitic remarks was Abdulhadi, the franchisee involved.

"The last solution is coming your way, the last solution. You cognize what the last solution is?" the pistillate tin beryllium heard saying successful the video. 

The operation is wide recognized for its relation with Nazi Germany's program to exterminate Jewish people.

CBC viewed the videos, which had been circulated connected societal media.

The allegations against Abdulhadi have yet to beryllium proven successful court.