Polytechnique shooting: CBC journalist Loreen Pindera remembers
CBC Montreal's Loreen Pindera remembers the confusion, panic and heartbreak that surrounded that cold night on Dec. 6, 1989 at Montreal's École Polytechnique.
'He separated the men from the women,' a male engineering student told CBC reporter
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
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