December 6th 1989 was a day in Canadian history
that would be remembered for the worst reasons. 45 minutes was all it took for Marc Lepine to end the lives of 14
young female students attending L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, and injuring
more than 12. On a day that seemed like any other a local Montreal man entered
the university carrying a semi –automatic Mini-14 rifle.
What surprised many people is the fact that Lepine only targeted women. When he walked into a full, in-session classroom with males and females he sepeterated the genders and asked the men to leave the room in order to spare them. He then killed 4 women in a line firing left to right while yelling quote “I hate women!” The men standing outside heard the fire and some ran while others froze, unable to move due to the circumstances at hand.
Lepine continued on for another half hour, moving his way up the stairs from classroom to classroom, killing innocent women on the way. After one of the women he shot in classroom 311 proceeded to scream and cry after being shot, Lepine took out a 6-inch hunting knife and proceeded to stab her in the heart.
Minutes after the brutal stabbing, someone in the maze-like university pulled the fire alarm and caused Lepine to panic, point the barrel at his own head, and pull the trigger. Witnesses claimed they saw pieces of his skull shatter onto the floor along with mass amounts of blood.
A 3 page suicide note was found in his jacket explaining his hatred towards women. In the letter he claimed women were taking the jobs that were ‘rightfully mens’. (In March 1981 he applied for the Canadian Army, but was rejected because he was “unsuitable”) Also that year he applied to the L’Ecole Polytechnique University to be faculty, but didn’t manage to get the job there aswell. The chief of police on the case Pierre Leclair, had to find out the hard way as a father that in the suicide note there was a list of 19 women that Lepine had wanted to kill, and one of them that was successfully followed through with, was Pierre Leclairs daughter Maryse Leclair.
What surprised many people is the fact that Lepine only targeted women. When he walked into a full, in-session classroom with males and females he sepeterated the genders and asked the men to leave the room in order to spare them. He then killed 4 women in a line firing left to right while yelling quote “I hate women!” The men standing outside heard the fire and some ran while others froze, unable to move due to the circumstances at hand.
Lepine continued on for another half hour, moving his way up the stairs from classroom to classroom, killing innocent women on the way. After one of the women he shot in classroom 311 proceeded to scream and cry after being shot, Lepine took out a 6-inch hunting knife and proceeded to stab her in the heart.
Minutes after the brutal stabbing, someone in the maze-like university pulled the fire alarm and caused Lepine to panic, point the barrel at his own head, and pull the trigger. Witnesses claimed they saw pieces of his skull shatter onto the floor along with mass amounts of blood.
A 3 page suicide note was found in his jacket explaining his hatred towards women. In the letter he claimed women were taking the jobs that were ‘rightfully mens’. (In March 1981 he applied for the Canadian Army, but was rejected because he was “unsuitable”) Also that year he applied to the L’Ecole Polytechnique University to be faculty, but didn’t manage to get the job there aswell. The chief of police on the case Pierre Leclair, had to find out the hard way as a father that in the suicide note there was a list of 19 women that Lepine had wanted to kill, and one of them that was successfully followed through with, was Pierre Leclairs daughter Maryse Leclair.
Although no men were killed in the massacre that day, that
doesn’t mean they all walked away unharmed. Along with the 14 murders that
happened that day there were over 30 witnesses of the murders. Many of which
suffered long term from PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder) as well as
nightmares every night that ‘years of therapy could never fix’ claimed one of
the witnesses.
Sarto Blais, a graduate of the University who was there when the shootings took place hanged himself 8 months after December 6th. The suicide note left by Sarto pained the hearts of many when he talked about the day that “Lepine took his life away without physically, but emotionally harming him”. Sarto explained in the letter how he couldn’t continue living his life knowing that he did nothing that day to try and stop the madman who took all the lives of the incredible women he never got the chance to say goodbye to. 3 months after the suicide of Sarto Blais, both parents later on committed suicide as a result of their departed son.
After background checks and interviews were done on Lepine police looked into the Dark past of birth name “Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharb” And found out his hatred for women came from a difficult home life where his father beat him and his mother (who was a nurse) could never help him. The reasons to hate women just escalated after incidents like that.
Sarto Blais, a graduate of the University who was there when the shootings took place hanged himself 8 months after December 6th. The suicide note left by Sarto pained the hearts of many when he talked about the day that “Lepine took his life away without physically, but emotionally harming him”. Sarto explained in the letter how he couldn’t continue living his life knowing that he did nothing that day to try and stop the madman who took all the lives of the incredible women he never got the chance to say goodbye to. 3 months after the suicide of Sarto Blais, both parents later on committed suicide as a result of their departed son.
After background checks and interviews were done on Lepine police looked into the Dark past of birth name “Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharb” And found out his hatred for women came from a difficult home life where his father beat him and his mother (who was a nurse) could never help him. The reasons to hate women just escalated after incidents like that.
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