Word: chernier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Testifying before a coroner's court Saturday, Lortie confessed to the kidnapping of Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte last Oct. 10. He also confirmed that three of the four prime suspects now being sought in connection with the case are members of the Chernier cell and that they too took part in Laporte's abduction...
Police arrested Bernard Lortie, a 19-year-old student and a member of the Chernier cell of the Front de Liberation du Quebec, in an apartment near Montreal University last Friday...
...known to be merely a tiny fringe of terrorists whose numbers probably did not exceed 150. Not only that: they were incapable of launching any sort of effective mass action by themselves because they worked through small, completely separate cells. The Liberation cell had kidnapped Cross, the Chernier cell was holding Laporte. There was every indication that the two groups had acted independently of each other, and there was no reason to believe that larger assaults would follow...
...home and travel only under heavy protection. After the passage of several "deadlines" for the meeting of the demands, Montreal radio broadcast the FLQ manifesto; but negotiations between the government and the FLQ's representative Robert Lemieux never got underway, and on the evening of October 10, the Chernier cell of the FLQ seized "the Minister of Unemployment and Exploitation," Laporte...
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