What the records say
- When
- 16 Dec 1995
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 16
- Coordinates
- 45.12° N, 5.43° E
- Description
- Cult mass suicide
- Injured
- 0
1995 Vercors massacre
Religious mass murder-suicide
On the morning of 16 December 1995, 16 members of the Order of the Solar Temple died in a mass murder-suicide in a clearing in the Vercors, near the village of Saint-Pierre-de-Chérennes in Isère, France. Two members of the group, Jean-Pierre Lardanchet and André Friedli, shot and killed 14 other members, including three children, before setting the bodies on fire and killing themselves.
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