Marc Carbonneau

Marc Carbonneau (born 29 May 1933) was a member of the Liberation Cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ).

Carbonneau, a taxi driver by profession, was active in left-wing groups in the 1950s and joined the FLQ 15 years later.[1] On 7 October 1969, he participated in protests organized by the Movement de libération du Québec against the Murray-Hill monopoly, which would later be known as the Murray-Hill riot. During the October Crisis of 1970, he was part of the Liberation Cell of the Front de libération du Québec that kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross. For this, he appeared on Canada's most wanted list on 11 November 1970. In exchange for Cross' release, Carbonneau and the other members of the group were flown into voluntary exile in Cuba.[2] He returned to Quebec on 25 May 1981, and was sentenced to 20 months in prison and 150 hours of community service.[3].

In February 1956 at the age of 18, he married Huguette Carbonneau. They have four children.

Reference

  1. ↑ Last Post, Volume 1 (1969) p. 7.
  2. ↑ "Canada and the FLQ", Peter Janke (ed), Terrorism and Democracy: Some Contemporary Cases: Report of a Study Group of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992, ISBN 9780333554883, pp.59–60.
  3. ↑ Louis Fournier, F.L.Q.: histoire d'un mouvement clandestin, Classiques des sciences sociales 4233, Chicoutimi: J.-M. Tremblay, 2010, ISBN 9781412368339, p. 470, (in French).
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