Incident Date:
October 23, 1980
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Perpetrators: Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
Event Type: Facility/Infrastructure Attack
Weapon Type(s): Sabotage Equipment
Organization Type: Environmentalist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Educational Institution(Schools/Universities/Educational Buildings)
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: "10/23/1980: Vandals cut through the fence around the University of British Columbia Animal Care Centre, spray painted slogans on the two buildings, slashed tires of two vans and poured sugar into the gas tanks of van. The incident was popularly attributed to the Animal Liberation Front."
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. 95"
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