On October 10, Paul Rose as leader of the FLQ's Chénier Cell joined with members Jacques Rose (brother), Bernard Lortie, and Francis Simard to kidnap Quebec Vice Premier and cabinet minister, Pierre Laporte. Believing many others would follow in an uprising, their goal was to have Quebec live up to the fate wished for it by the Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-8, namely to become an independent country. However, the kidnapping did not work out as planned and they killed Laporte. Some say that FLQ killed him without hesitation in order to show to the population they were serious. Another version of the story says that the minister died by strangulation by accident when two of the kidnappers (Paul Rose was not there) were about to release him and they tried to restrain him after he attempted to free himself. In 1971, Rose was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Laporte and sentenced to life imprisonment.