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Events honouring Polytechnique shooting victims planned for 33rd anniversary

At 5:10 p.m., the time the first shots were fired, 14 beams will light up the sky above Mount Royal in memory of the women who lost their lives.

Clara Levy-Provençal and Joël Girard-Lauzièrehe lay down flowers at the base of the plaque commemorating the 14 women killed at the Polytechnique on the 27th anniversary of the Dec. 6 massacre.
Clara Levy-Provençal and Joël Girard-Lauzièrehe lay down flowers at the base of the plaque commemorating the 14 women killed at the Polytechnique on the 27th anniversary of the Dec. 6 massacre. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette

Tributes are planned today in Montreal to commemorate victims of the Ecole Polytechnique shooting on the 33rd anniversary of the tragedy.

On Dec. 6, 1989, a man motivated by a hatred of feminists shot and killed 14 female students and injured 13 other people at the Montreal engineering school.

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Students and staff of Ecole Polytechnique are expected to pay their respects this morning by placing rose wreaths on the commemorative plaque located near the student entrance.

At the end of the day — at 5:10 p.m., the time the first shots were fired — 14 beams will illuminate the sky above Mount Royal in memory of the women who lost their lives.

Fourteen beams of light pointing skyward at the top of Mount Royal in Montreal on Dec. 6, 2014, commemorate the 14 women killed in 1989 at the École Polytechnique.
Fourteen beams of light pointing skyward at the top of Mount Royal in Montreal on Dec. 6, 2014, commemorate the 14 women killed in 1989 at the École Polytechnique. Photo by Phil Carpenter /Montreal Gazette

Flags outside of the school’s main building are at half-mast and will remain like that throughout the day.

The anniversary of the mass shooting was proclaimed National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in 1991.

The women killed in 1989 were Genevieve Bergeron, Helene Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz, Maryse Laganiere, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michele Richard, Annie St-Arneault and Annie Turcotte.

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