Their son was baptized a Catholic as an infant, but received no religious instruction during his childhood his mother described her son as "a confirmed atheist all his life". Rachid was a non-practising Muslim, and Monique a former Catholic nun who had rejected organized religion after she left the convent. During his absence, Monique discovered evidence that her husband had been having an affair. Rachid was a mutual funds salesman and was travelling in the Caribbean at the time of his son's birth. Marc Lépine was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi on October 26, 1964, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Algerian immigrant Rachid Liass Gharbi and Canadian nurse Monique Lépine. December 6 is now observed in Canada as a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. The massacre is regarded by criminologists as an example of a hate crime against women, and by feminists and government officials as a misogynist attack and an example of the larger issue of violence against women. Lépine's actions have been variously ascribed from a psychiatry perspective with diagnoses such as personality disorder, psychosis, or attachment disorder, noting societal factors such as poverty, isolation, powerlessness, and violence in the media. His suicide note blamed feminists for ruining his life. He then moved into other parts of the building, targeting only the women, before killing himself. After several months of planning, including the purchase of a Ruger Mini-14, he entered the École Polytechnique on the afternoon of December 6, 1989, separated the men from the women in a classroom, and shot the women, while yelling, "I hate feminists", claiming that he was "fighting feminism". Lépine had long complained about women working in "non-traditional" jobs. He twice applied for admission to the École Polytechnique, but lacked two required compulsory courses. Lépine began a computer programming course in 1988, and again abandoned it before completion. In 1986 he dropped out of the course in his final term, and was subsequently fired from his job at a hospital due to his poor attitude. Lépine's application to the Canadian Forces was rejected, and in 1982 he began a science program at a college, switching to a more technical program after one year. He legally changed his name at the age of 14 giving "hatred of his father" as the reason. Lépine was considered bright but withdrawn, and had difficulties with peer and family relationships. Lépine and his younger sister lived with other families, seeing their mother on weekends. Gharbi was abusive towards and contemptuous of women, and left the relationship after Monique returned to nursing to support her children Lépine was seven at the time. Lépine was born in Montreal, the son of Canadian nurse Monique Lépine and Algerian businessman Rachid Gharbi. Marc Lépine ( French: born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi Octo– December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec, who, in 1989, murdered fourteen women, and wounded ten women and four men at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in the École Polytechnique massacre.
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