What the records say
- When
- 11 Nov 1984
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 2
- Coordinates
- 47.72° N, 1.38° W
- Description
- mass shooting in Châteaubriant, France
- Injured
- 5
1984 Châteaubriant shooting
Mass shooting in Châteaubriant, France
On 11 November 1984, a mass shooting occurred in Châteaubriant, France. 23-year-old far-right extremist Frédéric Boulay opened fire on Turkish migrant workers, killing two people and wounding five others before being apprehended. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1985.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “fusillade à Châteaubriant”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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