Denis Lortie

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Denis Lortie (* 1959 ) is a former NCO in the Canadian Armed Forces . On May 8, 1984, he stormed the Québec National Assembly , murdered three Quebec officials and injured 13 other people. In 1985, Lortie was sentenced to life imprisonment for premeditated murder , the first 25 years of which was unsolicited . In a retrial in 1987, he pleaded guilty to conditional murder. In 1996 he was conditionally released from prison and has lived in Québec ever since , where he works as a construction worker.

The French legal historian and psychoanalyst Pierre Legendre thoroughly investigated this case and interpreted it as parricide . The assassination allows a glimpse of the missing genealogical bond, caused by a tyrannical and terrorist father who prevented Lortie from finding his own genealogical place, i. H. could even play the role of father. The fear of a repetition of the violent and incestuous violence of the father against his own family led Denis Lortie to the attack on the government of Québec, which had "the face of his father". This case prompted Legendre to clarify the father's office and his relationship with the legal institutions. In addition, Legendre has suggested a re-evaluation of video material in the process, which enables the assassin to recognize the act and thus his guilt and, in a certain sense, to experience a catharsis here. The latter has inspired media and legal scholar Cornelia Vismann, among other things, to think about the use of media in law. In Manfred Schneider's assassination theory, which attempts to read assassinations and their interpretation against the background of a paranoidly structured reason, Legendre's analysis of the Lortie case occupies a central position.

Marc Lépine , who shot 14 women at the École polytechnique de Montréal in 1989 , expressed admiration for Lortie and his actions in his farewell letter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CBC Digital Archives: 1984: Gunman kills 3 at Quebec legislature . In: CBC , May 8, 1984. 
  2. ↑ Canada: Mr. D., A Gunman in Quebec . In: Time Magazine , May 21, 1984. 
  3. ↑ SENTENCED. Denis Lortie Showed no emotion as the judge ... . In: Orlando Sentinel , May 12, 1987. 
  4. ↑ Canadian Press: Que. legislature shooting rampage remembered . In: CTV News , May 8, 2004.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ctv.ca  
  5. ^ Pierre Legendre: Le Crime du caporal Lortie: Traité sur le père . Fayard, Paris 1989, ISBN 978-2-213-02337-3 .
  6. ↑ Cornelia Vismann: Media of Jurisprudence . Alexandra Kemmerer u. Markus Krajewski [ed.]. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-067031-1 .
  7. ↑ Manfred Schneider: The assassination. Critique of Paranoid Reason . Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2010, pp. 236–241, ISBN 978-3-88221-537-3 .
  8. ↑ Eglin, Peter; Hester, Stephen: "The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis" . Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., 2003, p. 58, ISBN 9780889204225 .

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SURNAME Lortie, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian gunman
DATE OF BIRTH 1959