December 11, 1978 - Éric Borel
Over the course of two days in September 1995, a sixteen-year-old carried out one of the deadliest mass killings in modern French history, moving from a family home to a village street and leaving fifteen people dead. The attack unfolded in rural Provence with a speed and scale that had no close precedent in the country, prompting serious examination of how such violence could emerge so suddenly and with so little warning.
From Wikipedia
On 23 September 1995, 16-year-old Éric Borel murdered three members of his family in Solliès-Pont in the arrondissement of Toulon, France. The following day, he shot dead twelve other people and injured four more in the village of Cuers the next day. When police arrived at the scene, Borel shot himself. The shooting is tied with a 1945 incident in Dieppe as the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in French history.
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