Incident Date:
February 21, 1969
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators:
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- Business(Gas/oil)
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: "02/21/1969: A 16 year old boy was convicted of setting a fire in the washroom of a Petro-Canada station in Montreal North. The device consisted of two soft-drink containers filled with naptha, with a trail of barbecue starter fluid as a fuse. Police found an unsigned document bearing the slogan ""for a unilingual Quebec"", which also stated that two banks would be attacked in March. The boy had been recruited for the task by a self-proclaimed ""separatist"" who had been previously convicted in the firebombing of an auto parts store displaying bilingual signs (23 December 1986), as well as in the bombing of the riding office of Member of the Legislative Assembly Lise Bacon (28 September 1987). The man was convicted on charges of arson and conspiracy and was put on probation, and the boy was sentenced to 1000 hours of community service by a juvenile court."
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. 302."
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