Editing École Polytechnique massacre (section)

===Suicide letter===
On the day of the massacre, Lépine wrote three letters: two were sent to friends, and one was found in an inside pocket of his jacket.<ref name="coroner"/> The police revealed some details from the suicide letter in the days after the attack, but did not disclose the full text.<ref>{{cite news|last=Malarek|first=Victor|title=More Massacre Details to be Released by Police, but an Inquiry Ruled Out|date=December 12, 1989|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|page=A6}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Malarek| first=Victor|title=Killer's letter blames feminists|date=December 8, 1989|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|page=A7}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> 

The media filed an [[Access to Information Act|access to information]] case to compel the police to release the suicide letter but were unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite news|last=McIntosh|first=Andrew|title=Marc Lépine's suicide note to stay sealed; Commission says it can't order police to reveal mass murderer's letter|date=August 22, 1990|newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette|The Gazette]]|page=A3}}</ref> A year after the attacks, the three-page statement was leaked to journalist and feminist [[Francine Pelletier (journalist)|Francine Pelletier]]. It contained a list of nineteen Quebec women whom Lépine labelled as "radical feminists" and apparently intended to kill.<ref name="Chun" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/history/difficultfour.html|title=A Difficult Story to Tell|work=The Story of the Fifth Estate|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126052255/http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/history/difficultfour.html|archive-date=November 26, 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=December 28, 2006|publisher=[[CBC News]]}}</ref> The list included Pelletier, plus a union leader, a politician, a TV figure, and six police officers who the gunman knew from their playing together on an amateur volleyball team.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fitterman|first=Lisa|title=Cops on Lépine's list: Names of six female officers found on Polytechnique killer|date=March 10, 1999|work=[[Montreal Gazette|The Gazette]]|page=A3}}</ref> The letter (without the list of women) was subsequently published in the newspaper ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]'', where Pelletier was a columnist.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pelchat|first=Martin|title=Lépine avait des motifs 'politiques'|date=November 24, 1990|newspaper=[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]|page=A1|language=fr-ca}}</ref> 

In the leaked letter, Lépine wrote that he was rational and blamed  'feminists' for ruining his life. He said he was angry at feminists for seeking social changes that "retain the advantages of being women [...] while trying to grab those of the men".<ref name="citynews">{{cite news|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2006/12/06/citynews-rewind-the-montreal-massacre/|title=CityNews Rewind: The Montreal Massacre|date=December 6, 2006|access-date=December 28, 2006|publisher=[[CityNews]]|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203032822/http://www.citynews.ca/2006/12/06/citynews-rewind-the-montreal-massacre/|url-status=live}}</ref> He referred to [[Denis Lortie]], a [[Canadian Armed Forces]] corporal who had killed three government employees and wounded thirteen others in an armed attack on the [[National Assembly of Quebec]] on May 8, 1984.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Eglin|first1=Peter|last2=Hester|first2=Stephen|title=The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis |publisher=[[Wilfrid Laurier University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHZJxbjlHsgC|year=2003|isbn=0-88920-422-5 |page=58}}</ref> The text of the original letter in French is available, as well as an [[Marc Lépine#Suicide statement|English translation]].<!-- Was it published in the book, or where? -->