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MONTREAL - A Montreal vigil for the Orlando massacre took a weird twist Thursday night when someone physically confronted Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard.

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MONTREAL – A Montreal vigil for the Orlando massacre took a weird twist Thursday night when someone physically confronted Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard.

Quebec provincial police said a trans advocate who had spoken at the vigil threw something at the premier.

Authorities said it was too early to say whether charges would be laid.

A demonstrator, right, raises a candle next to Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard moments before lunging on the Premier during a vigil for the victims of the shooting in Orando Thursday, June 16, 2016 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
A demonstrator, right, raises a candle next to Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard moments before lunging on the Premier during a vigil for the victims of the shooting in Orando Thursday, June 16, 2016 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Couillard was not injured.

Many of the politicians who attended the vigil were booed.

Forty-nine people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a gunman opened fire inside a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday.

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