Incident Date:
August 01, 1999
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Unknown Canada
Perpetrators: The Justice Department
Event Type: Threat
Weapon Type(s): Primitive/Melee (Knife or Other Sharp Object)
Organization Type: Environmentalist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Farm/Ranch)
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: "08/01/1999: Envelopes containing razor blades attached to a three by five card delivered to former and current fur farmers in various parts of Canada. This is the first in a series of two incidents related to a larger letter campaign of 100 booby-trapped letters rigged with razor blades. The envelopes had been mailed from New York, USA, and contained threatening notes...
Description: "08/01/1999: Envelopes containing razor blades attached to a three by five card delivered to former and current fur farmers in various parts of Canada. This is the first in a series of two incidents related to a larger letter campaign of 100 booby-trapped letters rigged with razor blades. The envelopes had been mailed from New York, USA, and contained threatening notes from the “Justice Department”, an animal rights extremist group. Several similar packages were received in Oregon at the same time."
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References: 1) Eco-terrorism Database
2) GTD 1970-2012 data file
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