The "L'Innovation" fire was a fire which took place at the "À L'Innovation" department store on the Rue Neuve in Brussels, Belgium on 22 May 1967. 251 people were killed, 62 injured and the department store itself, the work of the architect Victor Horta, was destroyed. In the aftermath of the fire, there was speculation that it might have been started by anti-American, Maoist protestors in the context of the Cold War and opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.