Denis Lortie
Denis Lortie is a famous Québécois assassin. Member of the Canadian Armed forces, it tries, the May 8th 1984, to kill the Prime Minister Rene Lévesque, without success, and it is imprisoned during a few years.
The Corporal Denis Lortie leaves the military base of Carp (close to Ottawa) for, claims it, to regulate a problem of divorce. He makes irruption on May 8th, 1984 at the Parliament of Quebec around 9 a.m. 45, opens fire on the receptionist, meets on his passage a messenger whom he kills out of another gust, leads in a smoking-room where he still opens fire on people come to witness a parliamentary commission, while seeking the blue Living room he enters the cafeteria but turns back when he realizes of his error; finally it moves towards the blue Living room of the National Assembly.
In the blue Living room, it draws from all shares, the few employees present in the room are thrown by ground. Soon arrives the sergeant of weapons and director of the safety at the National Assembly, Rene Jalbert, which speaks to him, the calm one and ends up convincing it to let leave people in the blue Living room. It establishes a rather large bond of confidence so that Denis Lortie accepts to accompany it to his office. In a few hours, that is to say towards 14:22, Denis Lortie goes peacefully to the police force.
May 11th, 1987, after two long lawsuits, he is recognized guilty of murder to the second degree. He is condemned to the prison with perpetuity; he is released under condition in December 1995.
According to the psychiatrist Pierre Mailloux, expert with the file, Denis Lortie suffered then from paranoid schizophrenia. It would thus have organized its crime following one is delirious psychic. Denis Lortie believed to act according to the will of God and he said to follow a light. Rather than to use its watch, its starting signal was the moment when the radio presenter André Arthur would stop speaking. By a fortunate coincidence, André Arthur finished his emission with 9:40 rather than with 10:00. Denis Lortie was in advance and there was not yet crowd with the blue living room. Without what, its crime could have been much more atrocious.
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