Incident Date:
April 02, 1961
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Oakville, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Theft
Weapon Type(s): Sabotage Equipment
Organization Type: Supremacist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Business(Retail/Grocery/Bakery (including cell phone shops and generic shops))
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/02/1961: A Jewish merchant's store in Oakville, Ontario was vandalized and robbed. A $7,000 stock of records was destroyed and anti-Semitic slogans were painted on the inside walls. Thieves stole $1,400 worth of cigarettes, television tubes, and diamond record needles. According to the Globe and Mail they caused $25,000 damage to the store. The Toronto Telegram reported a damage estimate of $10,000. The report also mentions swastikas painted on a McMaster University professor's home."
References: 1) RWVIC p. 4
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