Incident Date:
January 05, 1977
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Croatian Nationalists
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary (Arson/Fire)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Journalists & Media(Newspaper Journalists/Staff/Facilities)
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: "01/05/1977: The offices of ""Nas Novina,"" a Croatian weekly published in Toronto sustained a fire. The fire caused $100,000 damage. The editor blamed the fire on Croatian Nationalists. No injuries occurred. On 12/23/1976, the Toronto Star stated that the incident consisted of arson attacks on a Yugoslavian newspaper in Scarborough, which was believed to be politically motivated, causing $10,000 damage."
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. 88"
2) RWVIC p. 90
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