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#Animal liberation front terrorist series#

The group targeted the boathouse because of apparent ties to Oxford University. Upon investigation the cause of the fire was attributed to incendiary devices which had been placed in the Eight's bays. The fire caused 26 boats in total to become unusable which were part of St Hilda’s, St Catherine’s, Hertford, Mansfield and St Benet’s Hall boats and boat clubs.

The Oxford Arson Squad, an ALF cell, caused their first arson in Oxford on the 4th July resulting an estimated half a million pounds worth of damage.

The fire that caused £500'000 damage at Londbridges boathouse by the ALF Oxford Arson Squad, because the business has ties to Oxford University, July 4 2005. The ALF warned Phytopharm to stay away from Huntingdon or "see your share price crash and your supporters property go up in flames," and issued the following statement: Template:Cquote File:Longbridges Fire.jpg Phytopharm was targeted, as were those doing business with it, because it had business links with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). The ALF stated on Bite Back a month later that activists had placed an incendiary device under the car, which was in Kendall's garage at home when it caught fire. Ī Vancouver-based brokerage announced that it had dropped a client, Phytopharm PLC, in response to a ALF firebombing of a car belonging to Canaccord executive Michael Kendall in London, England.

An ALF raid on a mink farm in Rome, Italy,saw 2,000 mink released.

2005-2008 For previous article, see Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 2000-2004 Main article: Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs 2005 File:ALFItalymink.gifĪn ALF raid on a mink farm in Rome, Italy, saw 2,000 mink released, March 16 2005.

#Animal liberation front terrorist series#

A series of raids also followed, which frequently targeted fur farms and animal laboratories and their breeding facilities, including the Harlan Interfauna raid in Cambridge, by Barry Horne and Keith Mann. Forest Service Oakridge Ranger Station, causing $5.3 million. The ALF then continued into the 1990s, causing even more damage, with notable actions such as the jointly claimed ALF and ELF arson at the U.S. Unnecessary Fuss, a film by PETA with footage that the ALF stole, was also released which showed primate researchers laughing and joking at a baboon, as they inflict brain damage as part of a research project into head injuries caused by accidents. The ALF was then founded throughout Europe and further broad in the 1980s, with notable raids including those removing the Silver Spring monkeys and Britches. 1980s and 1990s Main article: Timeline of Animal Liberation Front actions, 1976-1999 The first fur farm raid was then heard of in the same year, with 1,000 foxes released from Dalchonzie fur farm in Scotland. It was reported that in the first year alone, the ALF targeted slaughterhouses, furriers, butchers shops, circuses, breeders and fast-food restaurants, causing damage that totaled £250,000. With the remaining activists from the Band of Mercy and another two dozen new willing activists, 30 in all, Lee formed the Animal Liberation Front upon his release in 1976. There had been daily demonstrations at the court during their trial, including Lee's local Labour Party member of parliament, Ivor Clemitson. Two years after Ronnie Lee and Cliff Goodman had been charged for the raid on the Oxford Laboratory Animal Colonies in Bicester in 1974, as part of the Band of Mercy, the "Bicester Two" as they were known Lee emerged even more militant than before. Background ALF formed Main article: Animal Liberation Front#Origins