Two Second Cup café locations at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital have been shut down and the franchise owner’s contract terminated after the individual was filmed on Friday making “hateful remarks and gestures,” according to the Canadian company.

In a statement posted to its social media pages, Second Cup Canada said it has “zero tolerance for hate speech.”

“In co-ordination with the hospital, we’ve shut down the franchisee’s café and are terminating their franchise agreement,” the statement reads.

The company said it will retain the staff and continue paying them until the locations at the hospital reopen under new management.

The CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, the health authority that oversees the hospital, says it was made aware of a video “containing antisemitic and hateful messaging that has been circulating on social media.”

“We fully support Second Cup’s decision to take swift and decisive action in this matter by shutting down the franchisee’s cafés and terminating their lease agreement,” a statement to CBC reads.

It added the CIUSSS stands “firmly against antisemitism and any other form of discrimination or hate speech.”

The incident follows a surge in tensions in Montreal following recent protests.

On Thursday, student protesters held a rally calling for Quebec post-secondary institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel and called on the federal government to take a stance against the war in Gaza.

On Friday, three people were arrested after protests by pro-Palestinian and anti-NATO demonstrators turned violent, with protesters throwing objects at police, lighting two vehicles on fire and breaking windows.

The protest was condemned by politicians of all stripes Saturday as acts of antisemitism, which one organizer rejected, saying the protests were against the actions of the state of Israel and not Jewish people.