List of massacres in France
Name Date Location Deaths Perpetrators Notes
14 July 1953 demonstration 14 July 1953 Paris 7 ( +50 demonstrators , 16 police wounded ) French police Seven people , including 6 Algerians , killed by French police
1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing 18 June 1961 Blacy , Marne 24-28 ( +132-170 injured ) Organisation armée secrète Train derailed by OAS explosive , killing up to 28
Paris massacre of 1961 17 October 1961 Paris 40 ( government sources ) ~200 ( opposition sources ) French police Algerian demonstrators killed by French police
The Charonne Metro Station Massacre 8 February 1962 Charonne 9 French police CGT Trade union members and communists killed by French police
Marseille bar massacre 3 October 1978 Marseille 7 Armed gunmen Organized crime war
Sofitel massacre 5 August 1983 Avignon 7 Robbers Four luxury hotel employees and three customers killed by robbers
Ille-et-Vilaine massacre 19 June 1985 Ille-et-Vilaine 7 Guy Martel spree killing
Luxiol massacre 12 July 1989 Luxiol 14 Christian Dornier spree killing , 3 family members and random inhabitants
Besançon massacre 1 July 1992 Besançon 7 ( +5 wounded ) Franck Zoritch 7 people killed Franck Zoritch
Cuers massacre 24 September 1995 Cuers 16 Éric Borel spree killing , 3 family members and random inhabitants , perpetrator committed suicide
Tours massacre 29 October 2001 Tours 4 ( +7 wounded ) Jean-Pierre Roux-Durrafourt 4 people killed by Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt
Nanterre massacre 27 March 2002 Nanterre 9 ( +19 injured ) Richard Durn spree killing , perpetrator committed suicide
2012 Midi-Pyrénées massacre 19 March 2012 Midi-Pyrénées region 7 ( +5 injured ) Mohammed Merah A French radical Islamist man attacks a Jewish school , he murders 3 young children and a rabbi at the school , and also kills 3 French soldiers
Annecy shootings 5 September 2012 Chevaline , Haute-Savoie 4 Unknown 3 Britons and 1 Frenchman killed in shooting
2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre 7 January 2015 Paris 12 ( +11 injured ) Chérif and Saïd Kouachi Two French radical Islamist brothers attack an office , they murder 11 at the office and kill a French police officer on the street
2015 Porte de Vincennes massacre 9 January 2015 Paris 5 ( +11 injured ) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant A French radical Islamist man attacks a Jewish supermarket and murders 4 , a French policewoman is also killed on the street the previous day
Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberate crash 24 March 2015 Prads-Haute-Bléone , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 150 Andreas Lubitz Andreas Lubitz , the German co-pilot , deliberately crashed the plane on the French Alps , killing all passengers and crew
November 2015 Paris attacks 13 November 2015 Paris 130 ( +368 injured ) ISIL Eight radical Islamists men of ISIL perform coordinated attacks upon the French public at various locations in Paris using assault rifles and explosives ;
2016 Nice attack 14 July 2016 Nice 86 ( +434 injured ) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel A Tunisian/French radical Islamist man attacks the French public celebrating Bastille Day , he drives a 19 tonne cargo truck through the public on the street thereby killing indiscriminately
Carcassonne and Trèbes attack 23 March 2018 Trèbes and Carcassonne 4 ( +15 injured ) Redouane Lakdim Islamist terrorist Redouane Lakdim shoots and stabs four people to death
Post-War
The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in France (numbers may be approximate):