Incident Date:
April 05, 1985
Incident Successful:
Location: Montreal, Quebec Canada
Perpetrators: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: Yes
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Transportation (Other than aviation)(Subway)
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: "04/05/1985: An anonymous telephone call to the Montreal detachment of the RCMP warned that there would be an explosion at the Atwater subway station on 04/07/1985. The caller claimed to represent the Armenian Secret Army. No explosives were found in a subsequent search of the station. The warning was similar to one given on 04/06/1985 and also to the Toronto transit threat, all appearing to have been hoaxes."
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. 436."
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. 175"
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