Incident Date:
February 23, 1963
Incident Successful: No
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: "Reseau de Resistance, Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)"
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Blunt Object)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Journalists & Media(Radio Journalists/Staff/Facilities)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "02/23/1963: The Reseau de Resistance claimed responsibility for hurling a Molotov cocktail through the window of English-language radio station CKGM. According to Morf, the bomb had been poorly made and failed to explode. A Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) member received a five-year prison term for this offence, to be served concurrently with other sentences."
References: 1) "Kellett, A., Beanlands, B., Deacon, J., Jeffrey, H., & Lapalme, C. (1991). Terrorism in Canada 1960-1989, User Report no. 1990-16. Ottawa: Solicitor General Canada, National Security Coordination Centre, Police and Security Branch. p. 226."
2) "Ross, Jeffrey I. (1992). ATIC IV: Chronology of Domestic and International Terrorist Events in Canada, 1960-1990. Montreal, Qc: International Centre for Comparative Criminology. p. 20"
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