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Polytechnique shooting: CBC journalist Loreen Pindera remembers

Loreen Pindera | CBC News | Posted: December 6, 2014 7:33 PM | Last Updated: December 6, 2014

'He separated the men from the women,' a male engineering student told CBC reporter

Media | Remembering Polytechnique: A reporter's story

Caption: CBC journalist Loreen Pindra recalls the night she was dispatched to Ecole Polytechnique for what the newsroom initially thought was a fire.

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Image | Lt. Pierre Leclair

Caption: Montreal police Lt. Pierre Leclair talks to reporters outside of Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. Leclair's daughter Maryse was later found dead inside the school. (CBC Archives)

I had moved to Montreal just three months earlier. I had never before been on the University of Montreal campus. I thought I was being sent to cover a fire.
A young male engineering student standing outside the building told me, in French, that a man had burst into his classroom.
"He separated the men from the women," the young man told me. I shook my head, asked again. I thought I wasn't understanding his French.
It took a few minutes to grasp what he'd actually said.
It's taken a lifetime to digest what actually happened.
On mobile? Listen to Loreen's World Report piece from Dec. 7, 1989(external link)

Media | World Report Dec. 6, 1989

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