The Chénier Cell was a Montreal-based cell of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group in Quebec whose members were responsible for a decade of bombings and armed robberies in the 1960s that led to what became known as the October Crisis. The Chénier cell was named after the rebel hero of the Lower Canada Rebellion Jean-Olivier Chénier.
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“In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)