Slaughter of the polytechnic school of Montreal

The slaughter of the Polytechnic school is a massacre which took place in 1989, with the Canada, and whose victims all are of the women.

December 6th, 1989 in Quebec, Marc Lépine (born Gamil Gharbi) entered the Polytechnic school of Montreal, affiliated with the Université of Montreal, with Montreal (Quebec). It penetrated in a room where a course of genius was given, separated the men from the women under the threat of a rifle, started to shout with which point it hated the feminist and started to shoot at the women. It continued its slaughter elsewhere in the building. It killed fourteen women - thirteen coeds and a secretary - before committing suicide.

It left a note explaining why it blamed feminism for the failures of its life, of which its not-admission with the program of Génie, although the women did not constitute whereas 20 percent of the students in the process of becoming engineer.

The massacre shocked the Canadian population deeply.

Feminism

When the reasons for Marc Lépine were updated, the event was used as massive impulse for:

  1. the feminist movement in Canada, including the attribution of wage equity,
  2. for the action against violence towards the women, including the installation of refuges,
  3. of the monuments in several big cities of Canada often in the shape of grouped benches.

The Parlement of Canada indicated the December 6th like national Journée of commemoration and of action against the violence made to the women and each year of the official ceremonies are held everywhere in Canada. A white ribbon is the symbol.

Control firearms

The massacre stimulated also the movement of Contrôle of the firearms, for laws on the recording of the long firearms in 1995 (with the passage of bill 68) which is abolished in 2006.

Victims

  • Genevieve Bergeron (N. 1968)
  • Helene Colgan (N. 1966)
  • Nathalie Croteau (N. 1966)
  • Barbara Daigneault (N. 1967)
  • Anne-Marie Edward (N. 1968)
  • Maud Haviernick (N. 1960)
  • Maryse Laganière (N. 1964)
  • Maryse Leclair (N. 1966)
  • Anne-Marie Lemay (N. 1967)
  • Sonia Furrier (N. 1961)
  • Michele Richard (N. 1968)
  • Annie St-Arneault (N. 1966)
  • Annie Turcotte (N. 1969)
  • Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (N. 1958)

At least four people committed suicide following this event

Place du 6-December-1989

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