Interesting:
Naturally His Bobness will be bursting at the seams to give any help he can.
Re-investigation into the planting of incendiary device
The Associated Press
July 12, 1987, Sunday, AM cycle
Animal Rights Group Claims Responsibility For Three Store Fires
SECTION: International News
LENGTH: 245 words
DATELINE: LONDON
An animal rights group claimed responsibility for planting firebombs which damaged three department stores of the Debenhams chain Sunday, saying it was to protest the sale of fur coats.
The group, the Animal Liberation Front, said the attacks were part of an "economic sabotage" campaign against the chain.
There were no casualties.
The worst fire, in Luton, part of London's commuter belt, raged out of control for nearly five hours and heavily damaged three floors, police said.
Police said the blaze was regarded as highly suspicious, though a search found no trace of incendiary devices.
The London Fire Brigade said firebombs went off at stores in the London suburbs of Harrow and Romford, causing a small fires at each store.
A second firebomb was found and defused at each store.
In telephone calls to the British Broadcasting Corp., the Independent Radio Network and the domestic news agency Press Association, the Animal Liberation Front said the devices were "a form of economic sabotage against stores which sell fur coats in the West End (of London) and the rest of the country."
Debenhams has been a target of firebomb and other attacks by the animal rights group for more than three years. A company spokesman said the fur trade "forms only a small part of the business."
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals condemned the attacks, saying its own campaign against killing animals for their fur could be jeopardized.
