Police arrested a Morin Heights man on Tuesday for making a death threat against an independent candidate during the provincial election campaign in Quebec City in eastern Canada.

The 61-year-old man was arrested and released on a promise to appear in court, said Cindi Paré, a spokesperson with the Quebec City police department.

Ali Dahan, an independent candidate in the Quebec City riding of Jean-Talon, was obliged to limit his campaign to his home after local police told him he was the target of an online threat.

The death threat was made after Dahan informed the media that someone had riddled his campaign posters with projectiles from an air gun.

Dahan said police told him the online threat was a comment suggesting that while his campaign posters had been one target, he would be the next.

There is no link between the person who made the threat and the individual who is believed to have shot up Dahan’s posters.

A 26-year-old man was arrested in connection with the poster vandalism after turning himself into police. The suspect was released and will appear in court on charges of mischief and negligent use of a firearm.

Dahan, a Muslim, says he was frightened by the threats, noting that he lives near the mosque that was the site of the 2017 shooting rampage that killed six worshippers.