This home on at 1297 Redpath Crescent was the site of one of Quebec's most dramatic events: the kidnapping of British diplomat James Cross on Monday, Oct. 5, 1970 at 8:15 a.m.Cross was shaving, wearing underwear, shirt and socks.
Lanctot sprung out with a .32 and Hamer pulled out a M-1 sawed-off shotgun as the Portuguese maid sought a pen to sign the alleged birthday gift.
Cross wore a dark green checkered sportsjacket and black pants as he was taken away.
Langlois also held a rifle in the driveway. They drove off with Cross in the trunk and kept him hostage a long time.
It was the first kidnapping in Montreal since the Greta Goede affair 12 years earlier, in 1958.
FLQ Kidnapping ! and this looks more like Outremont than Westmount...so I would assume Pierre Laporte kidnapping.
ReplyDeleteJimmy Zoubris
This is a really wild guess, but was it the kidnapping of James Cross? That looks like a house that would be on Redpath Crescent.
ReplyDeleteKidnapping of James Cross (1970)
ReplyDeleteLaporte was kidnapped in the South Shore. Nothing to do with Outremont.
ReplyDeletei've also read that cross was transferred from his kidnapper's car into an accomplice's taxi that was waiting at the taxi stand outside of the montreal neurological institute at the top of university street.
ReplyDeleteCross spent a total of 59 days in captivity.
ReplyDeleteThe Cossette-Trudels, husband and wife, each received a prison sentence of two years less a day but served only 8 months.
8 months. That's 240 days. This works out to 4 days for every one day Cross was held in captivity by these animals.
The other members of the cell received longer sentences of about 3 years each.
I'd say crime pays, wouldn't you?
Wrong house....this is not the house.
ReplyDeleteThe house was located further up the road....
His daughter was married and aged 23.
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