Quebec liquor store employee allegedly punches customer multiple times after mask disagreement

Quebec's alcohol retailer, the SAQ, has suspended one of its cashiers who allegedly punched a customer multiple times in the head Thursday during a fight that started because a cashier wasn't wearing a mask. Both the SAQ and Montreal police have opened investigations.

The fight broke out after the customer refused to be served by a cashier who allegedly was not wearing a mask.

The customer, Mario Gosselin, says he still feels shaken by the event.

"I thought I was being killed,” he told CTV. “I thought he was killing me."

Gosselin had been waiting in line at the SAQ in Montreal North when he says he heard the unmasked cashier mocking public health measures.