Michelle Duclos

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Michelle Duclos is a resident of Quebec, Canada and a supporter of the Quebec sovereignty movement.

While employed as a performer on CFTM-TV in 1965, and a member of the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale, she became involved in a plot to bomb the Statue of Liberty^[1] in collusion with the Black Liberation Front, a militant Black Power group based in Harlem.

The 26-year old Duclos, together with three men, Walter Augustus Bowe, Khaicel Sultan Sayyed and accused leader Robert Steele Collier, drove across the Canada–United States border into New York with Duclos' white 1961 Rambler carrying a cardboard box filled with sticks of dynamite.^[2]

Unaware that the Canadian authorities had alerted the United States, the group decided to hide the dynamite in a vacant lot in Riverdale, the Bronx. Upon returning to retrieve the explosives, Bowe and Collier were immediately arrested. The rest of the group was arrested shortly afterwards.^[3]

Her past actions have led to criticisms of her appointment to government positions since 1985, which included the Quebec Premier Bernard Landry's appointment of Duclos to the position of non-resident representative to Algeria of the province of Quebec in 2002.^[4][5]

[edit] References

1. ^ Other Militant Groups of American Culture, from the "American Colonization Society" website
2. ^ The Monumental Plot - TIME
3. ^ Terrorists Connected To Cuban Communist Government
4. ^ Esteban Beruvides, Cuba: Anuario Historico 2001 Tomo 2
5. ^ Vigile Archives

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