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The performance was terrifying.
In the late afternoon of December 6, 1989, a young man came to the first floor of the Polytechnic Faculty of the University of Montreal.
He wore green clothes like a hunter, and two ammunition belts crossed over his chest.
He was holding a semi-automatic rifle in one hand.
"He looked like Rambo," recalled an eyewitness.
According to the investigation report, he entered lecture hall C-230.4 around 5:10 p.m., where a few dozen students were talking to their lecturers - it was the last day of the trimester.
“He smiled at us.
Everyone was thinking of a joke ", reported the student Pierre Robert:" Then he ordered: 'Girls in one corner, boys in the other.'
At first nobody moved.
Then he fired into the ceiling. "
When the sexes were separated, he sent the men out and closed the door.
With the nine students alone, the perpetrator's hatred broke free: “You are women and you want to become engineers!
You are a feminist pack!
I hate feminists! "
The Polytechnic Faculty in Montreal, incorporated in 2007
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The 23-year-old student Nathalie Croteau protested: “We are not feminists.
I've never fought men. ”Then the perpetrator pulled the trigger.
Nathalie and five other girls died in the hail of bullets.
The other three collapsed critically wounded.
Immediately afterwards the young man ran out of the classroom and up the stairs to the next floor.
He shot everything that moved - including men.
"Nevertheless, it was absolutely clear that the man was only targeting female students," said René Meunier, who was grazed by a shot.
“I fell to the ground and pleaded for mercy with my arms raised.
So he left me alone and ran on. "
He shot a student who was standing at the photocopier in the temple.
He shot three other students in the cafeteria.
“I saw two girls lying in the cafeteria.
Half of the face was shot off one of them, ”said a survivor of the rampage.
Between the shots, the murderer cursed: "I only want the women!"
The seminar room where Marc Lépine committed suicide was taken 18 years later
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The 21-year-old François Bordeleau described his impression: "The madman hunted people - in the corridors, in the cafeteria and in the classrooms - and we were the game he hunted." Had thrown the column on the floor.
He shot a total of 35 bullets and killed 14 women between the ages of 19 and 31;
He injured another ten young women and four men, some seriously.
Then, it was around 5:28 pm, he looked out the window of a seminar room on the third floor and said, “Oh shit.” Then he put the muzzle of his rifle to his own head and pulled the trigger.
The police found a three-page suicide note next to the body, signed with his full name: "Marc Lépine".
It said he was a student himself.
For seven years women have been ruining his life, he claimed.
All of his failures are the fault of women.
The funeral procession for the victims of the rampage in Montreal
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The investigation quickly revealed that the 25-year-old was a seriously disturbed perpetrator.
He was the son of the Canadian Monique Lépine and an Algerian immigrant.
The parents' relationship broke down when Marc was five years old.
His father regularly beat his wife and children and sometimes seriously injured them.
During the divorce process in 1976, Monique Lépine stated that her husband “totally despised” women and believed that they should serve men unconditionally.
Marc Lépine took his mother's name.
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As early as possible, a few months before his 18th birthday, he applied for a career officer candidate in the Canadian Army.
But it was rejected.
The commission also included a civilian;
However, it is unclear whether their vote ensured that Marc Lépine was classified as unsuitable.
Apparently, the statement in the suicide note that women had destroyed his life “for seven years”, but at least also referred to this rejection.
In the following years Lépine studied electrical engineering in Quebec, but dropped out of this course shortly before formal graduation.
In 1989 he wanted to finish his studies in Montreal and as a prerequisite made one of the missing certificates.
He attacked children with a self-made flamethrower
Early Renter Willi Walter Seifert began a massacre with a self-made flamethrower and an improvised lance.
In June 1964 he attacked students and teachers in a suburb of Cologne.
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What exactly led to his rampage could never be determined.
Marc Lépine was seen as a loner and hardly had any friends.
He was choleric and behaved towards women in much the same way as his father had done.
He boasted that he hated feminists.
The spokesman for the Montreal police had a particularly tragic experience on St. Nicholas' Day.
When Pierre Leclair came to the scene, he found his 23-year-old daughter Maryse among the dead.
Several memorials commemorate the victims - a stone with the names of the dead near the crime scene, the “December 6th” in Montreal and a memorial made of 14 coffin-shaped granite benches in Vancouver.
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This article was first published in December 2019.