Incident Date:
March 07, 1963
Incident Successful: No
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: 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- Military(Military Barracks/Base/Headquarters/Check Post)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 4 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "03/07/1963: An incendiary bomb was thrown at the Royal Montreal Regiment Armoury on St. Catherine Street, Montreal. The first of the bottles was found when a sergeant noticed four youths running from the rear of the armoury. He found a drill hall window shattered and a bottle in the snow beneath it. Small glass bottles filled with kerosene with a mesh net around them were used; the fuel only ignites at high temperatures, and thus was unlikely to catch fire or explode. The letters ""FLQ"" were painted on the wall. The kerosene bombs bore a card with the inscription ""Front de Liberation Quebecois."" A Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) member said this armoury, and two others attacked at the same time, were chosen as representing ""a colonial symbol"" in Quebec. A member of the FLQ (the bomb-maker of the ""first wave"") was sentenced to a five-year 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."
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