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- Remaining FLQ split up.
- We Should split up. It is getting bad here. WE shall become the South Shore Gang.
- Sounds Good. We will become the Liberation Cell. We should stage basses in separate districts of Montreal
- James Cross
- Cross Laporte, You are under arrest by the FLQ. You are to remain our Hostage until our ransom is met
- Threats
- They split up into 2 different Montreal district divisions. The South Shore gang, which became the Chénier cell, was led by Paul Rose. The Liberation cell was led by Jacques Lanctôt.
- Armed Forces arrive
- The Liberation Cell Captured the British trade Commissioner James Cross from his home in Montreal. In exchange for the release of Cross, the cell issued seven demands; they included the release of 23 FLQ “political prisoners,”
- The Man Hunt
- We have a search and Arrest warrant. we are asking you to let us search your house!
- Following the kidnapping of Laporte, elected officials in Quebec flooded the police with requests for protection. On 11 October, the Chénier cell issued a communiqué; they threatened to kill Laporte unless all seven FLQ demands were met by 10 p.m.
- Crisis Averted
- FREEZE! YOUR ARE UNDER ARREST!
- On 12 October, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau asked the Canadian Armed Forces to deploy soldiers in Ottawa to protect high-profile people and locations. The next day, CBC reporter Tim Ralphe questioned Trudeau at the front entrance of the Parliament Buildings.
- On 18 October, warrants were issued for the arrest of Marc Carbonneau and Paul Rose. They were wanted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Pierre Laporte
- Paul and Jacques Rose and Francis Simard were arrested on a farm southeast of Montreal on 28 December. They and Bernard Lortie were charged with the kidnapping and murder of Pierre Laporte on 5 January 1971.
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