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Opening Fire: Annie Turcotte and Mass Femicide

opening fire: The murderer was than heard to scream, I hate feminists, before opening fire and killing 14 innocent women Anne St-Arneault 23 Genevi ve Bergeron 21 H l ne Colgan 23 Nathalie Croteau 23 Barbara Daigneault 22 Anne-Marie Edward 21 Maud Haviernick 29 Barbara Klueznick 31 Maryse Lagani re 25 Maryse Leclair 23 Anne-Marie Lemay 22 Sonia Pelletier 23 Mich le Richard 21 and Annie Turcotte 21 simply because they were female, according to Rabble. This December 6 marks the 28th anniversary of the mass femicide at cole Polytechnique. He ordered the men to leave the room. Vigils will be held across Canada to commemorate the horrendous act that made it far too clear to all women that if you are female there are no safe spaces. Half of all women in Canada have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16.70 per cent of spousal violence is not reported to the police.A woman is assaulted an average of 35 times before she calls the police the first time. In Canada it's well documented that One in three women will experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.