Incident Date:
January 17, 1980
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Incendiary
Organization Type: Supremacist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Private Citizens & Property(Houses/Apartments/Residence)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 3 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: 01/17/1980: Winnipeg police arrested two 17 year olds and one adult for burning four to five crosses on the front lawns of three homes mostly belonging to East Indian families. The police attribute the attack to pranksters and not the Ku Klux Klan.
References: 1) RWVIC p. 111
2) "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. 415."
3) "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. 164"
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