Four students were arrested this weekend after police allege they defaced a memorial at a Scarborough school remembering the women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre 30 years ago.
Staff at the Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies said they learned misogynistic slurs had been written on a message board posted in the school’s lobby after class ended Tuesday, said Toronto District School Board spokesperson Ryan Bird.
Bird said the slurs were written in English and Arabic.
“Toronto police were notified shortly after,” Bird told the Star on Monday. “This kind of language is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated at any TDSB school.”
The school at 720 Midland Ave., south of Eglinton Avenue East, declined to comment on the incident.
Fourteen women were shot and killed in the shooting at the Montreal university on Dec. 6, 1989. The City of Montreal has since recognized it as an anti-feminist attack.
Const. Victor Kwong said the school reported it to police on Wednesday, and provided surveillance footage.
“The school knew who they were based on the video,” he said.
The students, aged 18, 19, 20 and 21, have been charged with mischief. The alternative adult learning centre only takes students over the age of 18.
Toronto police have yet to release their names.
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