Incident Date:
April 16, 1966
Incident Successful: No
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ)
Event Type: Theft
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Unknown Gun Type)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
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: 2 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 5 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: 04/16/1966: Armed Robbery of the International Firearms gun shop at 1011 Blurey St. in Montreal at 16:50. Five members of the ARQ entered the shop and shot store Manager Leslie MacWillaims dead. The police were summoned and shots were exchanged as the robbers tried to flee through the back door. Believing he was one of the robbers the police shot and killed store employee Alfred Pinisch. It is alleged that the store was targeted because it did not have a French name.
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