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Christian Dornier (born July 15, 1958) is a French mass murderer, who shot to death his sister and mother and wounded his father with a 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun at their farm on July 12, 1989. He then drove through the village of Luxiol and the adjacent area, shooting people at random. A total of 14 people were killed and eight others injured in his half-hour rampage, before police managed to subdue him. He was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and thus could not be held accountable for his crime according to French law, much to the anger of the victims' families.〔(Farmer kills 14 persons during shooting rampage ), ''The Prescott Courier'' (July 13, 1989)〕 He has been treated in a psychiatric hospital in Sarreguemines since April 1991. ==Life== Dornier was the oldest child of Georges and Jeanne Dornier. He had a sister named Corinne, and a brother named Serge. He served 12 months in the military around 1981 and apparently never was the same afterwards.〔(Villagers expected slayer to 'create havoc one day' ), ''Eugene Register-Guard'' (July 14, 1989)〕 Dornier was described as a reserved person who liked to read a lot and work in the forest. According to his brother he had no friends and hardly talked to anyone.〔 Sometimes he didn't talk to anyone in the village for weeks.〔(French farmer kills 14 with shotgun from car ), ''Ocala Star-Banner'' (July 13, 1989)〕〔Luxiol: L'itineraire de l'horreur, ''Paris Match'' (1989)〕 One and a half years prior to the shooting his father decided to retire and hand over the farm to him in three years. Dornier enrolled in a month-long agricultural course to prepare for the day he had to take over the farm, but he returned after a week, apparently broken. He shaved his head, began to smoke, abandoned his farm work, and became violent. Eventually Georges Dornier decided not to cede the farm to him.〔(La guerre avait fait 7 morts à Luxiol ), ''Le Soir'' (July 14, 1989)〕 Three months prior to the shooting Dornier, together with his father bought a VW Golf GTI, because he wanted the choice to leave the farm whenever he wished.〔 In the months prior to the rampage Dornier fired shots at his father and his neighbour René Barrand, and pelted a woman with stones one morning. The incidents were discussed at the village council, but it was decided that no action was needed, since Dornier never had any trouble with the law. Though Dornier's family was advised to get him psychiatric help, and his father Georges began to hide his guns.〔〔(Le tueur fou de Luxiol ), ''Le Soir'' (July 22, 1989)〕 Dornier was regularly visited by a psychiatrist from Baume-les-Dames, who prescribed him tranquilizers, but according to his brother he never took them.〔 His parents considered putting him in a psychiatric hospital, but he became furious, when his doctor talked to him about the matter, and his mother eventually decided against it.〔 In July 1989 Dornier apparently had a nervous breakdown and didn't attend the wedding of his sister with Daniel Maillard on July 8. Instead he drove through the area the entire day.〔〔(La tuerie de Luxiol ), ''Scene de crime'' (June 12, 2007)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christian Dornier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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