Incident Date:
August 14, 1983
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Toronto, 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- Government(Government Buildings/Facilities)
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: "08/14/1983: The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility for slashing about 15 tires on four trucks and painting slogans on animal control trucks at the North York, Toronto dog pound the previous morning. He said the vandals would have had to climb an eight-foot fence to get at the vehicles in the lot at the corner of Tuscan Gate and Sheppard Avenue in North York. In a letter delivered to The Globe and Mail, the ALF claimed responsibility for the 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. 108"
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