Incident Date:
May 28, 1971 10:00
Incident Successful: Yes
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: Yes
Target Information
1- Business(Bank/Commerce)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "28/05/1971: Around 10:00 two dynamite charges detonated. The first at the General Electric head office in the west end of Montreal and the second near Queen Mary’s Veterans hospital. At the same time an armed robbery occurs at the University of Montreal credit union and $58,775 is stolen (This incident is in reference to the robbery)."
References: 1) "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. 65"
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