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On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered in an anti-fem­in­ist attack at the École Poly­tech­nique de Montréal

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IwantToRetire · 07/12/2025 00:58

On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered in an anti-fem­in­ist attack at the École Poly­tech­nique de Montréal in what is still the second dead­li­est mass shoot­ing in Canada. Another 10 women and four men were injured in the shoot­ing.

Shooter Marc Lépine, armed with a leg­ally-obtained Ruger Mini-14, semi-auto­matic rifle and a hunt­ing knife, entered a mech­an­ical engin­eer­ing class at the École Poly­tech­nique and ordered women to one side of the classroom while also instruct­ing the men to leave.

He claimed to be fight­ing fem­in­ism, shoot­ing nine women, killing six, in the first room before mov­ing through cor­ridors, the cafet­eria and another classroom all while tar­get­ing more women. The attack las­ted just under 20 minutes, killing eight more women before the 25-year-old turned the gun on him­self.

Lépine blamed uniden­ti­fied women for sev­eral fail­ures in his life and said he would kill some women in revenge.

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/medicine-hat-news/20251204/281857239850230

The Montreal Massacre is one of the 16 Days of Action Against Violence Against Women https://www.womensgrid.org.uk/?p=28070

Which are the 16 Days and Why? – womensgrid

https://www.womensgrid.org.uk/?p=28070

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PrizedPickledPopcorn · 07/12/2025 08:16

I learned about this appalling crime here a few years ago. Must be one of the earliest incel crimes, I would think.

ErrolTheDragon · 07/12/2025 08:11

Thank you for the reminder OP.
those poor young women, slaughtered by an inadequate man. My daughter is an engineer and I can’t think about this without crying but I don’t want them forgotten.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 07/12/2025 05:54

I agree, and trans identified males have tried to appropriate the memorials for their own agenda multiple times, sometimes enabled by the organisers of the memorials because who cares that these victims of male violence and misogyny were actual women, right?

SternJoyousBeev2 · 07/12/2025 01:27

Yes a shocking reminder, the horror for me amplified by the way Canada has diminished the rights of women in favour if trans ideology.

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IwantToRetire · 07/12/2025 01:25

SternJoyousBeev2 · 07/12/2025 01:20

I don’t remember hearing about this appalling incident before. Utterly horrific.

I am not sure it was that widely reported in the UK at the time. 36 years ago. And no social media to amplify the story.

And although the 16 Days of Action has been going for sometime, again not something that is part of most people's awareness.

But a shocking reminder.

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SternJoyousBeev2 · 07/12/2025 01:20

I don’t remember hearing about this appalling incident before. Utterly horrific.