Le « Justice Department » (sous-groupe de l’ALF) envoie plusieurs lettres piégées aux lames de rasoir et supposément empoisonnées au VIH ou à la mort-aux-rats à des universités au Canada et aux États-Unis, spécifiquement adressées à plusieurs scientifiques utilisant des animaux dans leurs recherches. Certaines fermes faisant l’élevage d’animaux à fourrure sont également visées.

Les principaux suspects sont David Barbarash et Darren Thurston, qui avaient déjà écopé de courtes sentences pour avoir volé des chats dans un laboratoire de l’Université de l’Alberta en 1992.

Cependant, il se trouve que l’enquête, faite à l’aide de renseignements compilés par le SCRS, n’a pas produit de preuve indépendante de l’implication du SCRS (?) et donc que la cause est trop faible pour être présentée en cour.

13 novembre 1998 : Aldergrove, C-B

L’ALF libère 6000 visons de la ferme Rippin Fur Farm et détruit 70 années de dossiers d’élevage.

Source: ALF

30 mars 1997 : Blenheim, Ontario

240 visons furent libérés de la ferme Eberts Fur Farm

Source : Animal Defense League (ADL)

15 mars 1997 : Blenheim, Ontario

240 visons furent libérés de la ferme Eberts Fur Farm

Source : ADL

4 juillet 1996 : Langley, C-B

400 visons furent libérés de l'Akagami Mink Ranch

Mars 1996 : Canada

Le « Justice Department » (sous-groupe de l’ALF) annonce qu’il a envoyé 87 lettres piégées aux lames de rasoir emposonnées au VIH à des entreprises liées au commerce de la fourrure.

Aucune lettre n’est effectivement reçue, mais une autre attaque en 1999 sera différente sur ce point (1999-10-25).

22 décembre 1995 : Vancouver

After receiving letters saying that turkeys had been injected with rat poison, Safeway and Save-On-Foods chains pulled turkeys from the shelves of all their stores and offered refunds to customers. Tests showed no poison, and the action seems to follow on the often-used British tactic of a contamination hoax. The action caused over one million dollars in damages. Animal Rights Militia.

Source: Militant Vegan

14 novembre 1995 : Aldergrove, C-B

5 000 visons libérés de la ferme Rippin Fur Farm

Source: ADL

2 octobre 1995 : Chilliwack, C-B

L’ALF relâche 2 400 visons du Dargatz Mink Ranch et détruit les filières d’élevage.

Source : ALF

14 décembre 1991 : Edmonton

Trois camions de la compagnie Billingsgate Fish Company sont couverts de graffitis et leurs pneus sont coupés et mis à feu. Les bâtiments de l’entreprise sont également vandalisés. 100 000$ de dommages.

Source : ALF

1er novembre 1989 : Edmonton

A « News Release » published by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed that a branch of the ALF had been formed in Edmonton. The release stated that the group had « averaged lately anywhere from 2 to 9 targets in one night », vandalizing food outlets and fur businesses by smashing windows, gluing locks, and spray-painting buildings.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

24 avril 1989 : Vancouver, BC

The Hycrest Meat Market was destroyed in a fire set by the Animal Liberation Front. This was part of a series of attacks committed by the ALF to commemorate the « World Laboratory Animals Day ».

L’attaque cause 10 000$ de dommages à Hycrest et à Robson Gourmet Meats, qui fermèrent leurs portes.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991); ALF

24 avril 1989 : Vancouver, BC

In a series of attacks, a Vancouver area store, Nazare (poultry) Market was gutted by fire as a result of an apparent act of arson. L’entreprise restera fermée pour 4 mois.

An anonymous female claiming membership in the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) called the Vancouver Province and stated the attacks were carried out by the ALF to mark “World Laboratory Animals Day”.

Slogans were painted across the storefront, as they were on a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet and the Windsor Meats store on Granville St. that same morning. An Animal Rights pamphlet was left at one of the scenes.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991); ALF

17 janvier 1987 : Toronto

5 persons, 3 females and 2 males, wearing black hoods, sprayed “Meat is Murder” on the walls of a PFK outlet on Mount Pleasant Rd. The slogan was signed ALF.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

24 mars 1986 : Ottawa

The Humane Society of Ottawa-Carleton (HSOC) received about 12 calls threatening raids to protest the society’s practice of providing dogs for medical research. The callers reminded the HSOC of the raids the previous year at the University of Western Ontario where 4 research animals were stolen.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er janvier 1985 : London, Ontario

A group identifying itself as the ALF claimed responsibility for the “liberation” of a baboon and 3 cats from a research facility at the University of Western Ontario.

The University claimed that the baboon was infected with a strain of herpes that could be fatal to humans. It was later proven to be untrue.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

28 août 1984 : London, Ontario

The ALF broke into a medical laboratory at the University of Western Ontario late at night. The culprits brought along a video cassette recorder and took pictures of a baboon, numbered B-43.

Later that year, B-43 appeared on a post card issued by a Vancouver group called LifeForce, and was aired on the Global television network.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

29 janvier 1984 : Toronto

The ALF claimed responsibility for brealing into a laboratory at the University of Toronto’s Scharborough campus and freeing up to 70 research animals.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

6 avril 1983 : Londres, Royaume-Uni

The offices of the Mtl Fur Company in London received a letter bomb from the British Animal Liberation Front. This was one of a number of letter bombs sent by the ALF to various political targets in GB.
The bombs were mailed from Liverpool.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

14 mars 1983 : Toronto

Tires were slashed and slogans were spray-painted on vehicles at a Toronto meat distributor in veal.
The ALF claimed responsibility

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

14 mars 1983 : Toronto

Tires were slashed and slogans such as “Meat is Murder”, “Killers”, and “ALF Saves” were spray-painted on vehicles of the Etobicoke Animal Control Centre (which supplies researchers with surplus pets). The ALF claimed responsibility in statements delivered to various media outlets.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

6 mars 1983 : Mississauga, Ontario

Tires were slashed and slogans were painted on vehicles at Brandt Meat Packers.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

6 mars 1983 : Toronto

Tires were slashed and slogans were painted on vehicles at Bittner Meat Packers.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er mars 1983 : Toronto

A. Stork and Sons, a specially meats store, was one of 4 locations vandalized in an overnight series of ALF attacks. Tires on nearby vehicles were slashed and slogans were painted on walls.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er mars 1983 : Toronto

The Scarborough Animal Centre was vandalized as part of a campaign in which 3 other locations were targetted. Tires on nearby vehicles were slashed and slogans painted on the walls.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er mars 1983 : Toronto

The ALF acted against the offices of the Federal Fisheries and Oceans Department. This was one of the 4 locations targetted after the jailing of anti-sealing protestors in Atlantic Canada. Walls and doors were smeared with slogans such as “Fisheries Murders Seals”, and tires on nearby vehicules were slashed.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er mars 1983 : Toronto

The ALF acted against Franklin’s Portion-Pak Meat in Scarborough and 4 other locations in the Toronto area, following the jailling of an animal rights activists and his anti-sealing crew in Atlantic Canada.
Tires were slashed and slogans were painted on walls.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

17 janvier 1983 : Kitchener, Ontario

More than 60 trucks of the J.M. Schneider plant were slashed and the walls were painted with such slogans as “Animal Murderers”, “Death Factory”, “Meat Equals Death” and “Animal have Rights too”.
An anonymous caller told the local paper the next day that the ALF was responsible.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

Juillet 1982 : Toronto

The Ontario Stockyards in Toronto were the target of a tire slashing and slogan-writing attack.
The ALF claimed responsibility

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

Décembre 1981 : Toronto

The locks of several Toronto fur stores were glued shot and animal rights stickers pasted on windows.
The ALF claimed responsibility

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

14 juin 1981 : Toronto

21 animals were stolen by “animal welfare commandos” in a highly publicized raid on research facilities at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. The ALF claimed responsibility in a phone call to the Globe and Mail, the call included a warning that the groups might carry out raids on “offending” institutions. The stolen animals were said to be in the care of ALF members at their homes.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er mai 1981 : Montréal

Some time in May a research laboratory at McGill University was vandalized; the act was claimed by the ALF. Several small meat stores and a building in the fur district were also victimized.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

28 février 1981 : Vancouver, C-B

A laboratory at the University of BC was raided by activists opposed to experiments on primates and dogs. The ALF claimed responsibility

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

31 janvier 1981 : Vancouver, C-B

The offices of the Animal Care Centre at the University of BC were firebombed, causing minor damage, no injuries.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

24 janvier 1981 : Vancouver, C-B

The animal care centre at the University of BC was set on fire, the latest incident in a lenghty campaign of harassment against the centre and its staff (tire slashing, anonymous telephone calls, hate mail).

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1er septembre 1980 : Vancouver, C-B

A campaign against the animal shelter at the University of BC was started by animal rights activists.
It was marked by the slashing of auto tires, slogans painted on walls, late-night phone calls to doctors involved in research and hate literature in the mail. Some of the doctors were also threatened with knee-capping. A fire-bombing may also have been connected with the campaign.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

1980 : Ottawa, Ontario

The National Research Council animal facility was raided and vandalised. No animal rights group claimed responsibility, and police believed the act was the work of anonymous zealots.

Source : Kellett et al. (1991)

- AnimalRights.net
- Animal Defense League (ADL)
- LifeForce
- « L'activisme et la défense des animaux » (SCRS)
- « Le terrorisme lié à une cause particulière » (SCRS)