page_title: Polytechnique Montréal
section_title: 1989 massacre
hierarchical_section_title: Polytechnique Montréal / History / 1989 massacre
caption_attribution_description: العربية: أسماء القتلى في المذبحة على النصب التذكاري. Čeština: Památník se jmény obětí útoku. English: Plaque on the exterior wall of École Polytechnique commemorating the victims of the massacre. Memorial plate on the side of École Polytechnique. Español: Placa conmemorativa a las víctimas. Suomi: École Polytechniquen joukkomurhan uhrien muistomerkki. Français&#160;: Commémoration des 14 victimes (toutes féminines) de la tuerie de l'École Polytechnique de Montréal (1989). L'auteur du massacre, Marc Lépine, déclara: «&#160;Vous êtes des femmes, vous allez devenir des ingénieures. Vous n'êtes toutes qu'un tas de féministes, je hais les féministes&#160;». Selon le documentaire de Patric Jean, La Domination masculine (2009), ce massacre a ouvert la parole aux revendications masculinistes au Québec, critiquant le sexisme «&#160;envers les hommes&#160;». Jean-Claude Rochefort, auteur de blog sur Internet, commémore ce jour comme celui de la Saint-Marc, «&#160;pour le souvenir de la première contre-attaque contre les féminazies [sic] dans la guerre contre les hommes.&#160;» [1]. Plaque sur le mur extérieur de l'École Polytechnique commémorant les 14 victimes de la tuerie. Português: Memorial ao Massacre da Escola Politécnica de Montreal. Türkçe: Katliamın kurbanlarının anısına yapılan ve okulun dış duvarında bulunan bir plaket. Katliam anıtı, kurbanların anısına.
context_page_description: The Polytechnique Montréal is an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It ranks first in Canada for the scope of its engineering research. It is occasionally referred to as Montreal Polytechnic, although in Quebec English its French name is more commonly used. The school offers graduate and postgraduate training, and is very active in research. Following tradition, new Bachelors of Engineering graduating from the École Polytechnique receive an Iron Ring, during the Canadian Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer ceremony.
context_section_description: On December 6, 1989, 25-year-old Canadian Marc Lépine entered the campus of École Polytechnique and fatally shot 14 women, wounding 10 other women and four men before killing himself on campus. For more than 30 years, the massacre was the deadliest shooting incident in modern Canadian history, until April 2020, when gunman Gabriel Wortman slew 22 people during his murderous Nova Scotia rampage.
  The École Polytechnique massacre is commemorated by the Canadian government as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
caption: Plaque commemorating the murder of 14 female students (6 December 1989)
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