Incident Date:
June 14, 1981
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators: Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
Event Type: Theft
Weapon Type(s): Unknown
Organization Type: Environmentalist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror:
Target Information
1- Healthcare/hospital(Hospital/clinics)
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: "06/14/1981: Twenty-one animals were stolen by ""animal welfare commandos"" in a highly publicized raid on research facilities at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility in a phone call to the Globe and Mail; the call included a warning that the groups might carry out more raids on ""offending"" institutions. A spokesman for the International Animal liberation Front proclaimed, ""We are saving the lives of animals and we will probably be arrested for it.” The stolen animals were said to be in the care of ALF members at their homes."
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. 421."
2) "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. 99"
Attached Files: