Fourmies massacre

When

1 May 1891

Kind

Event

Coordinates

50.02° N, 4.04° E

Description

Fusillade de Fourmies, nine killed and thirty wounded when troops fire on workers' May Day demonstration in support of eight-hour workday in Fourmies.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Fourmies massacre.

1891 mass killing of demonstrating workers in France

The Fourmies massacre was an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. Government troops fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers demanding an eight-hour workday. The troops' action against the workers, claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !", killed nine people, including two children, and injured 35 people.

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