Incident Date:
May 08, 1984 10:00
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Quebec, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Denis Lortie
Event Type: Armed Assault
Weapon Type(s): Firearms (Automatic Weapon (incl. semiauto))
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Government(Politicians/Political Parties/Political Movements/Political Party Meetings/Rallies)
2- Tourists(Tourists)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 3 fatalities, 14 injuries
Perpetrators: 1 involved, 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "05/08/1984: Corporal J.P.L. Denis Lortie, a supply technician at Canadian Forces Station near Ottawa, entered the Quebec National Assembly building and opened fire at assembly staff and journalists with a submachine gun. He made his way to the main chamber shortly before the starting time for a legislative committee hearing. The attack resulted in the death of three and the injury of 14, one seriously. One hundred police rushed to the building as Lortie held the sergeant-at-arms, Rene Jalbert, hostage. Negotiations continued between Quebec Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson and police and Lortie until 2:25 P.M. when he gave himself up and released Jalbert unharmed. At 9:20 A.M. prior to the attack, Lortie had delivered a tape in French to the CJRP radio station saying that he would destroy ""the government in power, including Rene Levesque"" for ""doing much wrong to the French-language people of Quebec and Canada."" He had earlier fired at tourists at la Citadelle, but hit no one. While he hoped to attack legislators, the Assembly was not in session, so he attacked indiscriminately. The man was found guilty in 02/1985 on three counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment."
References: 1) "Mickolus, Edward F., Todd Sandler and Jean M. Murdock. (1989) International Terrorism in the 1980s: A Chronology of Events, Volume II 1984-1987. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press. p. 55-56"
2) "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. 433"
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