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A convicted felon indicted of organizing the terrorist cell that kidnapped and killed Quebec cabinet minister, Pierre Laporte, during the 1970 October Crisis has passed away. The news of 69-year-old Paul Rose’s death was made public on Thursday by the magazine, L’Aut’Journal, where he was a contributor. It was mentioned that he died due to a stroke at Sacré-Coeur Hospital in Montreal.
Mr. Rose is widely famous for being an active member of the pro-independence, Front de libération du Québec, which took responsibility of conducting a campaign of bombings, robberies and kidnappings from the early 1960s until it scattered after the October crisis. Mr. Rose was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Mr. Laporte, however, he was later granted parole after spending 13 years behind bars. The editor of L’Aut’Journal, Pierre Dubuc, mentioned in his death notice that within some circles in Quebec, Mr. Rose was being seen as an influential figure of the left following his actions in the turbulent 1960s. Mr. Dubuc stated that “his many friends and all labour and nationalist activists are grieving the loss of a great Quebec patriot.”
Even though other former members of FLQ remained low profile after their release from jail, Mr. Rose actively participated in journalism and politics and worked as a union adviser. He mentioned in a 2005 interview with a socialist paper, Unité ouvrière, that “Quebec nationalism, I regret to say, is a liberation nationalism. It’s a people being denied its existence that is trying to find its place in the sun, the same thing as Palestine and Ireland.”
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