Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Montreal Massacre !

On December 6th, 1989, a massacre happened in an engineering class. When Marc Lepine yelled "You're a bunch of feminists. I hate feminists," threatening to kill a room of female and male engineering students. Marc Lepine made the guys and girls seperate, girls on one side and boys on the other. Then he made the men walk out of the classroom, along with the teacher, and lined the girls up one by one and shot them in a row. While shooting them he yelled ''I hate feminists,'' when he was finished with the females, he shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He then moved through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women to shoot. Then shot himself after killing all 14 women in the École Polytechnique School.


I was surprised to discover that some of the victims lived after the massacre. Nathalie Provost was a victim that got shot and working as a engineer. Marc Lepine shot Natalie Provost in the foot and leg, and a bullet grazed her temple. None of the bullets struck her bones. What I would like to know if there is any other survivors to the massacre.On Nov. 23, 1990, police released a three-page note found in Marc Lepine's pocket the night of the massacre. In it he blamed feminists for his personal failures and listed prominent women he targeted. He also wrote that the military rejected him because of his anti-social behaviour and that his life was now ruined.

Who: Marc Lepine.
What: killed females because he hates feminists.
Where:École Polytechnique School.
When: December 6th, 1989.
Why: Marc Lepine couldnt stand feminists and said its affected his life for seven years.

Victims
  • Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
  • Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
  • Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
  • Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
  • Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
  • Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
  • Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
  • Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
  • Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
  • Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
  • Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
  • Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
  • Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
  • Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student



commemorative plaque in polished stone, deeply engraved with in circle with 14 small silver disks distributed around the circle. Inside, and under the university's logo and the legend "In Memoriam" are the names of the 14 victims and the date of the massacre

 In a park, 14 coffin-like benches of pink stone are set in a circle. A higher slanted pink panel is visible in the foreground

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