Molotov cocktail fizzles before causing damage at Linamar site
June 11, 2008
Scott Tracey
Guelph Record news services [Ontario]
GUELPH
Police are investigating after an unexploded Molotov cocktail was found under a piece of equipment at a local Linamar plant earlier this week.
“It was set to ignite but it never did, which is good,” Guelph Police Sgt. Doug Pflug said. “Luckily there was no damage.”
A Molotov cocktail is a crude incendiary device made up of a bottle of flammable liquid and a wick. Pflug said the wick in this case had been lit “but it burned itself out.”
Pflug said the explosive was found under a boom lift at a business on Campbell Road.
It was found by the lift operator about 7:30 a.m. Monday.
Police have not revealed which company was targeted, but Linamar spokesperson Crystal Roberts confirmed the Molotov cocktail was found at Linergy, one of more than two dozen Linamar facilities in Guelph.
“Obviously we’re concerned that someone would vandalize our property,” Roberts said, refusing to speak in detail about the incident.
The company will focus on “ramping up security,” including installing security cameras and other measures.
Linamar has recently been the target of vandals.
In February, vandals attacked the company’s Eston, LPP and Comtech manufacturing plants. Last November, an anti-Linamar message was spray-painted on a downtown water tower and on the front gates of company founder Frank Hasenfratz’s home.
Roberts said following the February incidents security would be stepped up at the home and at Linamar’s facilities.
A posting on an anarchist website suggested the actions were in reaction to Linamar’s involvement in the Security and Prosperity Partnership fair trade dialogue.
Anyone with information about the Molotov cocktail, or who saw anything suspicious in the area of Campbell Road late Sunday or early Monday, is asked to call Constable Jim Finoro at [number removed] or Crime Stoppers at [number removed].
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