On April 20, 1963, Raymond Villeneuve and his terrorist associates planted a bomb at a Canadian Army recruitment center that killed 65-year-old night watchman Wilfred O'Neill. Arrested, Villeneuve was tried, convicted, and sentenced to twelve years in prison but was released on September 14, 1967 after serving four years. A year and a half after his release from prison, police began looking for him for questioning following the bombing of the Montreal Stock Exchange. Villeneuve fled to Cuba and then to Algeria and France, not returning to Quebec until 1984. The Canadian Forces (CF) (Fr: Forces canadiennes (FC)) are the combined branches of the military of Canada. ... The Bourse de Montréal (Montreal Stock Exchange) began in 1832 as an informal stock exchange at the Exchange Coffee House in Montreal, Canada. ...
Beginning in the early 1960s, his terrorist organization was responsible for a decade of bombings and armed robberies that led to the events in 1970 known as the October Crisis.
On April 20, 1963, RaymondVilleneuve and his terrorist associates planted a bomb at a Canadian Army recruitment center that killed 65-year-old night watchman Wilfred O'Neill.
Villeneuve speaks about his country, Quebec, with the fierce pride of a war veteran--which is more or less what he is. In 1962, Villeneuve and a small group of friends became the founders of the Front de libération du Québec, and committed their lives to the struggle for Quebec's independence.
Villeneuve, the youngest of his comrades at age 19, received the heaviest sentence--12 years--for orchestrating the entire affair.
Villeneuve describes the MLNQ as a loose organization of about 200 people who have taken it upon themselves to prepare for all eventualities, including that of violent conflict.
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