Multiple murders in France

Multiple shootings in France over the past decade:

– 2002: A man with a grudge against elected officials opens fire in a local council meeting in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, killing eight people. The following day, while in police detention, he manages to jump out of a window to his death.

– 2003: A property developer, his companion and their three children disappear from the Alpine town of Grand-Bornand. It later emerges that they were murdered by a neighbour who burned their bodies.

– 2006: A man in the throes of divorce murders his wife and their three children before hanging himself at Escaudain in northern France.

– 2008: In the southwestern Tarn region, a man upset by his divorce kills two of his own brothers along with his two sons and the girlfriend of one of them. When police catch up with him two days later, he shoots himself.

– 2009: On the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a 16-year-old boy uses a hunting gun to kill both his parents and his two younger brothers. He hands himself in to police the following day.

– 2009: In a working class apartment complex north of Paris, a man angry at noise caused by his neighbours shoots dead four of them and then shoots himself.

– 2010: Police find all six members of a family dead in their house in the western region of Vendee. The father, a doctor, had apparently bludgeoned his four children to death, stabbed his wife and then hanged himself.

– 2011: In the western city of Nantes, an entire family goes missing. Police later find the bodies of the wife and four children buried under the house. The father is never found.

– 2011: A man staying in a holiday cottage in northeastern France uses a plastic bag to suffocate his wife and two infant children before hanging himself.

February 2012: In the northern town of Zuydcoote a man who has recently separated from his wife goes to the family home and stabs their three children to death before hanging himself.

September 5: Three members of a British-Iraqi family on holiday in the French Alps are found shot dead, along with a French cyclist who apparently stumbled across the crime scene. The couple’s two young daughters survive, one unhurt and the other with severe head injuries.