Incident Date:
January 02, 1972
Incident Successful: No
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Supremacist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Entertainment/Cultural/Stadiums/Casinos)
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: "01/02/1972: The Metro police bomb squad removed an incendiary device from outside the New Yorker Cinema, after receiving a telephone bomb threat. Both the theatre and Canadian Press received the bomb threat calls. Bomb squad detectives stood guard over a hot and bubbly device left in the Yonge St. theatre showing, ""The Garden of Finzi-Continis;"" the movie was about Italy’s treatment of Jews during the second world war, especially the 1938 persecution of Jews in Italy. An attendant at the New Yorker theatre discovered a package in the men's washroom and rushed it out of the building to a sand saltbox. Bomb squad investigators removed the package and took it to a remote section of the beach. Members of the Jewish Defense League were to guard the downtown Toronto theatre to prevent the placing of another bomb. Police found a clumsy firebomb in the men's washroom on the following Sunday. Celia Airst stated that the theatre would be guarded for as long as it plays the movie. "
References: 1) RWVIC p. 49
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