Valery Fabrikant
| Valery Fabrikant | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Valery I. Fabrikant (Belarusian: Валерый Фабрыкант) January 28, 1940 Minsk, Soviet Union |
| Residence | Archambault Institution in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Belarusian |
| Occupation | Associate professor of mechanical engineering |
| Criminal charge | murder and assault |
| Criminal penalty | life sentence |
| Criminal status | in prison |
| Motive | extreme misplaced hostility |
| Killings | |
| Date | August 24, 1992 2:30 p.m. (UTC-4) |
| Location(s) | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Target(s) | Ninth floor of the Henry F. Hall Building at Concordia University |
| Killed | 4 |
| Injured | 1 |
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Valery I. Fabrikant (Belarusian: Валерый Фабрыкант; born 28 January 1940 in Minsk, USSR), is a Belarusian émigré and former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On 24 August 1992, he shot and killed four colleagues and wounded one staff member, after years of increasingly disruptive behaviour at the university.
He was sentenced to life in prison, and most recently denied parole or temporary leave in 2015.
Born in Belarus (in the Soviet Union), Fabrikant emigrated to Canada in 1979. Although he claimed to be a political dissident, journalists from the Montreal Gazette found he had been dismissed from numerous positions in the USSR because of disruptive behaviour.
Fabrikant was hired at Concordia University in 1980, where he worked first as a technician under limited grant money. After several years, he was promoted to academic positions included in departmental funding. He taught students and conducted independent research, despite students, staff and faculty having reported behavioural problems ranging from "undesirable to intolerable".
He attempted to collect information to blackmail officials into promoting him, threatened officials and colleagues and blamed others for all his problems. Fabrikant blamed his peers for his being denied tenure and for seeking to have his employment terminated.
Over several months of escalating charges from late 1991 into 1992, he accused the university of tolerating the practice of academics being listed as co-authors on papers to which they had not contributed. In 1992, in the midst of an email campaign against numerous university officials, Fabrikant went to court to try to have the names of several colleagues removed from research papers he had written in the 1980s. That case was not concluded until November 2007. It was dismissed by Quebec Superior Court Judge Nicole Morneau under a provision of the Quebec Code of Civil Procedures designed to treat cases found to be frivolous or unfounded. It was later reopened and eventually dismissed in March 2011.
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