Incident Date:
August 22, 1969
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Unarmed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Blunt Object)
Organization Type: Rightist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Diplomatic(Embassies/Consulates)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "08/22/1969: About 90 Anti-Soviet demonstrators, many of them Czechoslovakian nationalists, threw rocks, bottles and tomatoes at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. No windows were broken and no arrests were made. A sergeant was hit with a tomato then struck on the shoulder with a placard."
References: 1) RWVIC p. 35
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