As reported in last night’s news feed, yesterday a gunman went on a rampage in the heavily Jewish Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Montreal, killing a police officer and wounding another one before being shot dead by police.
Much more information on the incident is available today. The gunman’s name was Seth Hatfield, and he hailed from Alberta. It appears that he ignored civilian passersby and targeted police. The civilian who was shot to death, a rabbi named Michael Moshe Mizrahi, was in fact killed by a policewoman who shot him by mistake.
Mr. Hatfield left behind a 104-page manifesto. A copy was obtained and watermarked by Rebel News, and all the versions I’ve seen online so far appear to be copied from that one. I have a copy, but since it is widely available, both at Rebel News (PDF) and on Twitter, I see no point in uploading it here. However, if it starts to be suppressed by the Canadian government (which seems not at all unlikely), I’ll put a copy up where people can get it. It’s dense and turgid, like most such manifestos, and even includes footnotes. I have no real interest in reading the whole thing.
People who only read MSM reports on the incident will be misled into thinking that “incel” ideology was the primary motivator for the shooter’s rampage. However, there is much more to it than that: he was a Marxist who railed against capitalism and large corporations. In the manifesto he quotes The Communist Manifesto directly, so lining him up as “far right” seems a bit of a stretch.
In addition to hating women, he also hated “Zionists”. Also, he was particularly enraged by the pornography industry.
The New York Post has a useful summary. It notes:
Hatfield described influential Zionists and the headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism among his dozens of “valid potential Class A targets,” according to the Gazette.
Other prime targets Hatfield named include international real-estate companies, private equity firms, elite bankers, politicians, healthcare and oil CEOs, plastic surgeons, and cryptocurrency moguls.
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Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, 34, was killed during the shootout. A female officer, who has yet to be identified, was wounded in the attack.
Rabbi Michael Moshe Mizrahi, a member of the local Jewish community and the Chabad MADA center, was identified by Quebec MNA Monsef Derraji as the bystander who had been killed.
Note that the dead cop was named Mohamed.
See also the Montreal Gazette and this Newsweek report.
This French-language article confirms that a policewoman shot the rabbi.
An AI aggregation of reports on the incident is posted here. The collection includes an alleged photo of the gunman, but it seems very questionable to me, so I haven’t posted it.
Not the Bee has posted a useful compilation of information on the shootings, including excerpts from Seth Hatfield’s manifesto:
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The news in tonight’s feed is not completely current, since it’s from the material that accumulated while Gates of Vienna was down. Some of the stories have been overtaken by more recent events, such as the excommunication of the bishops of the Society of St. Pius X by Pope Leo XIV.
