Incident Date:
January 15, 1973
Incident Successful:
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax:
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: Yes
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Unnamed Civilians/Unspecified)
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: "01/15/1973: The wife of a Toronto multi-millionaire businessman and mayor of North York claimed that she had been kidnapped by revolutionaries who wanted $800,000 to finance an uprising somewhere in the world. After ten hours, she was released. The motives of the alleged kidnappers were unclear and the story was skeptically received."
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. 396"
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