Incident Date:
September 26, 1968 02:00
Incident Successful: Yes
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- Government(Government Buildings/Facilities)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 2 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "09/26/1968: The detonator of an incendiary bomb, planted by the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ), exploded outside a Quebec Liquor Board (SAQ) outlet in Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Little property was damaged and no one was injured. Only part of the device exploded at 2:00 a.m. The device consisted of a clock attached to a cylinder of gas and two sticks of dynamite. The dynamite did not explode. Liquor board workers had been on strike since June; this was the fourth bombing attack on the SAQ since the start of the strike. Two leading FLQ members were convicted of this attack."
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. 250."
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. 45"
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