Cuers massacre

Cuers massacre
Cuers is located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Cuers
Cuers
Cuers (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
Cuers is located in France
Cuers
Cuers
Cuers (France)
LocationSolliès-Pont and Cuers, France
Coordinates43°14′16″N 6°04′23″E / 43.2378°N 6.0730°E / 43.2378; 6.0730
DateSeptember 23–24, 1995 (1995-09-23 – 1995-09-24)
Weapons
Deaths16 (including the perpetrator)
Injured4
PerpetratorÉric Borel

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.