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On October 8, the announcer Gaétan Montreuil reads the FLQ manifesto on Radio-Canada television. On October 9: The FLQ Liberation Cell extends the deadline for Cross's execution its demands to be met to October 10, 6 P.M. Claude Ryan, editor in chief of the daily newspaper Le Devoir, suggest in an editorial that the government should negotiate.
From 1963 to 1970, the FLQ committed over 200 violent actions, including bombings, bank hold-ups, kidnappings, at least three killings by FLQ bombs and two killings by gunfire. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] In 1966, Revolutionary Strategy and the Role of the Avant-Garde was prepared by the FLQ, outlining their long-term strategy of successive waves of ...
The FLQ Manifesto was a key document of the group the Front de libération du Québec. On 8 October 1970, during the October Crisis , it was broadcast by CBC / Radio-Canada television as one of many demands required for the release of kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross .
October 8: Broadcast of the FLQ Manifesto in all French- and English-speaking media outlets in Quebec. October 10: Montreal, Quebec: Members of the Chénier Cell of the FLQ approach the home of the Quebec Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, while he is playing football with his nephew on his front lawn. These members kidnap Laporte.
In February 1963, the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) was founded by Georges Schoeters, Raymond Villeneuve and Gabriel Hudon, three RIN members who had met as part of the Réseau de résistance. They were inspired by the political ideas of the ASIQ's "independence + socialism" project, and felt the RIN was not extreme enough, making the ...
Nigel Barry Hamer was a British-born Canadian terrorist, kidnapper, and school teacher who was a key member of the Front de libération du Québec (). [1] He was a student at McGill University when he joined the Liberation Cell of the terrorist group and participated in the October Crisis of 1970. [2]
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The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ; English: Quebec Liberation Front) was a left-wing Québécois nationalist and Marxist–Leninist paramilitary group in Quebec, Canada. [3] It was active between 1963 and 1970, and was regarded as a terrorist organization for its violent methods of action.