Marc Lépine
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| Name: | Marc Lépine |
| Date of Birth: | October 26th 1964 |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Ethnicity: | Mixed (French and Algerian) |
Marc Lépine born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi was a Canadian mass shooter, who in 1989 killed 14 women and then himself at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Motivated by feelings of bitterness against what he described as "feminists" and his own lack of romantic success.
His three page suicide note was published in the newspaper La Presse.
Personal life[edit | edit source]
Born in Montreal to an Algerian stock-investor father and a francophone Canadian mother, Marc (then known as Gamil) had a somewhat normal early childhood, spending many years in the caribbean with his father on business trips. His father was an authoritarian figure who would often beat his wife and children, this abuse would eventually result in Gamil's parents separating in 1970, when he was only 7 years old.
In the following years, Gamil (Marc) would grow to hate his father and refused to speak about him to anyone, being ashamed of even having his surname. At the age of 14, after years of bullying due to his north-african heritage, Gamil officially changed his name to "Marc Lépine", taking his mother's last name. Marc was a quiet teenager who enjoyed solitary activities like reading and watching TV and struggled to maintain friendships, he would often get bullied by his sister and peers due to his inceldom, this resulted in him developing violent fantasies and planted the seeds for what was eventually going to happen. In 1981 Marc applied to join the Canadian military at the age of 17, but was rejected due to anti-social behaviour.
In 1982, when Marc was 18 years old, his only close friend moved out of Montreal. In the following years, his missing out on teenage love, his inceldom, and his lack of friends would truly begin to worsen his mental state, leading him down a path of dispair, he would struggle in college and had a hard time keeping jobs, even being fired in 1987 for aggressive behaviour. In march 1989, Marc applied to the École Polytechnique computer programming night course, obtaining an impressive 100% on the final exam.
On November 1st 1989, Marc purchased a rifle after having obtained the permit for it. On December 2nd, 1989 (4 days before the shooting), he bought his mother an early birthday present.
Shooting[edit | edit source]
On December 6th, 1989 at 5PM, Marc Lépine (aged 25), walked into the École Polytechnique with a knife on his belt, carrying a green garbage bag which held his rifle and bullets. He entered a classroom where a student was giving a presentation and walked up to the front, ordering all of the women and men to go to opposite sides of the room. Nobody moved, thinking this was some kind of prank, Marc then shot twice in the air to prove his seriousness, now ordering all men to leave the room, the men complied. Marc then exclaimed "Vous êtes toutes des féministes! Je hais les féministes!" ["You're all just a bunch of feminists! I hate feminists!"] and after a brief argument with one of the women, he began to shoot them, killing 6 out of 9. Marc proceeded to walk around the school, shooting and stabbing random women, killing another 8, after having killed 14 women, Marc shot himself in the head, ending the shooting in roughly 20 minutes.
Suicide note[1][edit | edit source]
Original (French) version:
Excusez les fautes. J’avais 15 minutes pour l’écrire (Voir aussi Annexe) Veillez noter que si je me suicide aujourd’hui 89/12/06 ce n’est pas pour des raisons économiques (car j’ai attendu d’avoir épuisé tout mes moyens financiers refusant même de l’emploi) mais bien pour des raisons politiques. Car j’ai décidé d’envoyer Ad Patres les féministes qui m’ont toujours gaché la vie. Depuis 7 ans que la vie ne m’apporte plus de joie et étant totalement blasé, j’ai décidé de mettre des bâtons dans les roues à ces viragos. J’avais déjà essayés dans ma jeunesse de m’engager dans les Forces comme élève-officier, ce qui m’aurais permit de possiblement pénétrer dans l’arsenal et de procédé Lortie dans une rassia. Ils m’ont refusé because associàl. J’ai donc attendu jusqu’a ce jour pour mettre à exécution mes projets. Entre temps, j’ai continué mes études au grès du vent car elles ne m’ont jamais intéressée sachant mon destin à l’avance. Ce qui ne m’a pas empécher d’avoir de très bonnes notes malgré ma théorie de travaux non remis ainsi que la carence d’étude avant les examens. Même si l’épitète Tireur Fou va m’être attribué dans les médias, je me considère comme un érudit rationnel que seul la venu de la Faucheuse on amméné à posé des gestes extrèmistes. Car pourquoi persévéré à exister si ce n’est que faire plaisir au gouvernement. Etant plûtot passéiste (Exception la science) de nature, les féministes ont toujours eux le dont de me faire rager. Elles veulent conserver les avantages des femmes (ex. assurances moins cher, congé de maternité prolongé précédé d’un retrait préventif, etc.) tout en s’accaparant de ceux des hommes. Ainsi c’est une vérité de la palice que si les Jeux olympiques enlevaient la distinction Homme/ Femme, il n’y aurait de Femmes que dans les compétitions gracieuses. Donc les féministes ne se battent pas pour enlever cette barrière. Elles sont tellement opportunistes qu’elles ne négligent pas de profiter des connaissances accumuler par les hommes au cours de l’histoire. Elles essai toutefois de travestir celles-ci toute les fois qu’elles le peuvent. Ainsi l’autre jour j’ai entendu qu’on honoraient les canadiens et canadiennes qui ont combattus au front pendant les guerres mondiales. Comment expliquer cela alors que les femmes n’étaient pas autorisés à aller au front??? Va-t-on entendre parler des légionnaires et galériennes de César qui naturellement occuperont 50% des effectifs de l’histoire malgré qu’elles n’a jamais exister. Un vrai Casus Belli. Désoler pour cette trop compendieuse lettre. Marc Lépine Annexe [Suit une liste de 19 noms] Ont toutes Failli disparaitre aujourd’hui. Le manque de temps (car je m’y suis mis trop tard) à permis que ces féministes radicals survives. Alea Jacta Est
Translated (English) version:
Would you note that if I commit suicide today 89-12-06 it is not for economic reasons (for I have waited until I exhausted all my financial means, even refusing jobs) but for political reasons. Because I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker. For seven years life has brought me no joy and being totally blasé, I have decided to put an end to those viragos. I tried in my youth to enter the Forces as an officer cadet, which would have allowed me possibly to get into the arsenal and precede Lortie1 in a raid. They refused me because antisocial [sic]. I therefore had to wait until this day to execute my plans. In between, I continued my studies in a haphazard way for they never really interested me, knowing in advance my fate. Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite my theory of not handing in work and the lack of studying before exams. Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media, I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts. For why persevere to exist if it is only to please the government. Being rather backward-looking by nature (except for science), the feminists have always enraged me. They want to keep the advantages of women (e.g. cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventative leave, etc.) while seizing for themselves those of men. Thus it is an obvious truth that if the Olympic Games removed the Men-Women distinction, there would be Women only in the graceful events. So the feminists are not fighting to remove that barrier. They are so opportunistic they [do not] neglect to profit from the knowledge accumulated by men through the ages. They always try to misrepresent them every time they can. Thus, the other day, I heard they were honoring the Canadian men and women who fought at the frontline during the world wars. How can you explain [that since] women were not authorized to go to the frontline??? Will we hear of Caesar’s female legions and female galley slaves who of course took up 50% of the ranks of history, though they never existed. A real Casus Belli. Sorry for this too brief letter. Marc Lépine Annex [list of 19 names and telephone numbers of women Lepine identified as feminists] Nearly died today. The lack of time (because I started too late) has allowed these radical feminists to survive. Alea Jacta Est