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Wednesday 25 april 2018

Online post suggests rampage suspect may have resented women

By CHARMAINE NORONHA a vehicle to kill mirrored
and DAVID CRARY tactics used by terrorists in
Associated Press France, Germany, Spain,
TORONTO (AP) — The sus- New York City and else-
pect in the deadly van at- where. Since 2014, there
tack in Toronto posted a have been at least two
chilling Facebook message terror-related cases in Can-
just minutes before plowing ada of vehicles being used
into a crowded city side- as weapons — they caused
walk, authorities said Tues- several injuries and one
day, raising the possibility death. But overall, Cana-
that he may have nursed da has been spared high-
grudges against women — casualty terror attacks; its
a possible echo of a 1989 most striking incidents of
massacre of 14 women violence over the past 50
that remains one of Cana- years have varied widely
da’s most traumatic acts of in nature. In 2014 a Muslim-
violence. Canadian gunman killed a
The 25-year-old suspect, member of the honor guard
Alek Minassian, was at Ottawa’s national war
charged Tuesday with memorial, then stormed
first degree murder in the Parliament, where he was
deaths of 10 pedestrians he shot dead by a sergeant-at
mowed down in the rent- Flowers and signs fill a memorial along Yonge Street Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Toronto, the day arms. Last year, a French-
ed van he sent careening after a driver drove a van down sidewalks, striking and killing numerous pedestrians in his path. Canadian man shot dead
along the busy walkway. Associated Press six Muslim men during eve-
Fourteen others were in- incident that suggested he recalled the 1989 massacre hunky dory in Canada,” ning prayers at a mosque in
jured. was part of an online com- at the Ecole Polytechnique, Wiseman added. “But we Quebec City. Back in 1972,
Toronto Police Services Det. munity angry over their in- an engineering college in don’t have this constant 37 people died in a Mon-
Sgt. Graham Gibson told ability to form relationships Montreal, when 25-year- string of mass shootings treal cafe deliberately set
a news conference that with women. old Marc Lepine entered that keep happening, and on fire by three men who
those killed and injured The now-deleted post sa- a classroom, separated then nothing changes.” had been refused entry.
were “predominantly” luted Elliot Rodger, a com- the men from the women, Wendy Cukier, a profes- In Toronto, Canadian rap-
women, though he de- munity college student told the men to leave and sor of justice studies at To- per Maestro Fresh Wes
clined to discuss a possible who killed six people and opened fire, killing 14 wom- ronto’s Ryerson University returned Tuesday to the
motive. wounded 13 in shooting en before killing himself. In and president of Canada’s scene of the rampage,
“All the lanes are open with and stabbing attacks near a suicide note, he blamed Coalition for Gun Control, pausing by a newly erected
this investigation,” said Po- the University of California, feminists for ruining his life. said Canada may avoid memorial. Wes, who lives
lice Chief Mark Saunders. Santa Barbara, in 2014. Since then, there have some types of violence be- nearby, was strolling down
Authorities have not yet Calling Rodger “the Su- been sporadic mass shoot- cause its social programs Yonge Street, heading to
released a list of victims. preme Gentleman,” the ings in Canada, but none are stronger than those in his barber to get a haircut
Those known to have been Facebook post declared: with a higher death toll — many U.S. states and it has when he saw a body bag
killed include a 30-year-old “The Incel Rebellion has al- reinforcing the view among less income inequality. But on the ground.
woman from Toronto, Anne ready begun! We will over- many Canadians that their the main difference, she “Yesterday was the most
Marie D’Amico, who was throw all the Chads and country is less violent than contends, is tighter gun beautiful day of the year
active in volunteer work, Stacys!” Rodger had used the United States. regulations in Canada. and then look what hap-
as well as a female student the term “incel” — for invol- “Canadians don’t know “If you take guns out of the pened,” he said. “Toronto is
at Seneca College, which untarily celibate — in online who they are, but they mix, Canada and the U.S. a safe city but things could
Minassian also attended. A posts raging at women for know who they are not — are identical,” she said, cit- happen anywhere. When
Jordanian citizen and two rejecting him romantically. they’re not Americans,” ing statistics indicating the these things happen, you
South Koreans were also Like-minded people in in- said Nelson Wiseman, a two countries have similar have to reflect.”
among those killed. ternet forums sometimes political science professor rates of non-firearm homi- Also revisiting the site was
The gender issue arose use “Chad” and “Stacy” at the University of Toronto. cides. Saman Tabasinejad, a New
because of what police as dismissive slang for men “They perceive that Cana- Although police say Mon- Democrat Party politician
called a “cryptic” Face- and women with more ro- da, relative to the U.S., is a day’s rampage does not who was canvassing in
book message posted by bust sex lives. peaceable kingdom.” appear linked to interna- the area when the attack
Minassian just before the The anti-women sentiment “This isn’t to say everything’s tional terrorism, the use of occurred.q