Incident Date:
March 28, 1971
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Edmund Burke Society (EBS)
Event Type: Unarmed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Hands, Feet, Fists)
Organization Type: Rightist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Named civilians)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities
Perpetrators: 15 involved, 0 fatalities
Description: "03/28/1971: Fighting broke out at the University of Toronto meeting where Quebec labor leader Michel Chartrand and Montreal lawyer Robert Lemieux were speaking. It was attended by 700-1000 persons to raise money for Quebec persons charged under the War Measures Act. Approximately 15 members of the Edmund Burke Society (EBS) attended. After several members of the Convocation hall audience were beaten, kicked, clubbed, and sprayed with an irritant which causes temporary blindness by the EBS. One youth threw two small glass stink bombs at Chartrand. As the smell of the stink bomb filled the hall, the youths outside began kicking the doors and fighting with members of the audience. Among the people arrested and charged was Gaza Matrai. Five men were arrested and charged for a number of offenses. One had in his possession of what police described as a mace-like substance sprayed into the crowd. A scuffle developed after members of the EBS and Emergency Committee for the Defense of Political Rights in Quebec at Convocation Hall. One hurled a stink bomb into the crowd. Three or four people were treated and released from emergency hospital. Peter Scollick, the hall's caretaker was squirted flush in the face with the irritant outside. Some of the 15 members kicked the heavy wooden doors and split one of them. Some of the windows in the hall were also broken. Police arrested five metro youths who claimed to be members of the EBS."
References: 1) RWVIC p. 43
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