Jacques Lanctôt is a
Canadian writer, publisher,
terrorist, and restaurateur.
He was a member of the
Front de libération du Québec
The (FLQ) was a Marxist–Leninist and Quebec separatist guerrilla group. Founded in the early 1960s with the aim of establishing an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means, the FLQ was considered a terrorist group by the Canadia ...
(FLQ) and was convicted on terrorism charges for his role in the kidnapping of British diplomat
James Cross in October 1970. Lanctôt is the son of Gérard Lanctôt, a former head of the
Parti de l'Unité nationale du Canada, a fascist party promoting Canadian nationalism.
After Cross was released, Lanctôt and the other kidnappers were allowed to leave Canada.
[ Lanctôt later returned to Canada in 1979, and served two years in prison. Following his release he set up a publishing house.
He is currently a columnist for the Quebecois francophone news service Canoe.ca.][http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/chroniques/jacqueslanctot/archives/2015/05/20150529-095040.html ]
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Canadian book publishers (people)
1945 births
Living people
Writers from Montreal
Liberation Cell members
Canadian people convicted of kidnapping
Quebec sovereigntists