Incident Date:
September 27, 1983
Incident Successful: No
Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Unarmed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Hands, Feet, Fists)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Government(Head of State)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: 09/27/1983: A man in a crowd of anti-nuclear protesters and Irish Republican Army sympathizers rushed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as she was entering a hotel to deliver a scheduled speech in Toronto. Police grabbed the assailant and arrested him. No one was injured.
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler, and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume I 1980-1983. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 443."
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. 173"
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