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All men, women and children in the town killed with swords and the town razed and burned to the ground by royal army under prince Louis. [9] Labécède massacre 1227: Labécède: Unknown Crusaders Men killed and Cathar Perfect burnt to death by Crusader forces of Humbert V de Beaujeu: Moissac massacre 1234: Moissac: 210 Papal Inquisition
The death toll includes 17 Spanish citizens, 8 Italians (a woman with 7 of her 9 children), and 3 Poles. [7] [8] [6] Six people escaped the massacre. [9] The last living survivor, Robert Hébras, known for his activism for reconciliation between France, Germany, and Austria, died on 11 February 2023, aged 97.
A key suspect in the investigation was Michel Fourniret, convicted in 2008 of the murders of seven girls and young women in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2001 – crimes that earned him the nickname "The Beast of Ardennes" – and he was declared an official suspect. [7] The crime had similarities to his modus operandi.
His wife, Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès, and their four children, Arthur, Thomas, Anne and Benoît along with the family's two dogs, were killed on an undetermined day in early April 2011. Their bodies were found buried in their garden on April 21. Xavier disappeared at the same time and has not been found.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in March 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
The Annecy shootings, also the French Alps shootings, were the deaths on 5 September 2012 of three members of a British family and a French citizen on the Route Forestière Domaniale de la Combe d'Ire near Chevaline, Haute-Savoie, France, near the southern end of Lake Annecy.
A woman shot and killed her husband, three children, and herself. [95] 16 December 1995: near Saint-Pierre-de-Chérennes, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: 16 [n 1] 0 16: 1995 Vercors massacre: Two members of the Order of the Solar Temple shot and killed fourteen people before killing themselves. [101] 24 September 1995: Cuers, Var, France 16 [n 1] 4 20
According to official documents read to the National Convention in Paris on 12 October 1794 (21 Vendémiaire, Year III), these drownings were ordered by Adjutant General Lefèbvre resulting in 41 deaths: one 78-year-old blind man and another man, 12 women, 12 girls, and 15 children, including 10 who were only 6 to 10 years old and 5 infants.