Incident Date:
January 17, 1983
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Waterloo, Ontario 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- Business(Retail/Grocery/Bakery (including cell phone shops and generic shops))
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: "01/07/1983: More than 60 truck tires of the J.M. Schneider plant were slashed and the walls were painted with slogans such as, ""Animal Murderers,"" ""Death Factory,"" ""Meat Equals Death"" and ""Animals have Rights too"". An anonymous caller told the local paper the next day that the Animal Liberation Front was responsible."
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. 428."
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. 105"
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