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| On the following day at 7:15 a.m., Borel arrived at the home of his friend Alan Guillemette and when Alan's mother opened the door Eric asked her to wake him. The two had a lengthy discussion in the garden, and apparently Eric wanted something from Alan, but when he declined and turned to go back into the house, Eric shot him in the back, mortally wounding him.<ref name=dossier/><ref name=amok/> From 7:30 a.m. onwards, Borel started shooting people at random. No one grew suspicious of his rifle until it was too late, as it was ] and thus the sight of rifles outside not unexpected. | On the following day at 7:15 a.m., Borel arrived at the home of his friend Alan Guillemette and when Alan's mother opened the door Eric asked her to wake him. The two had a lengthy discussion in the garden, and apparently Eric wanted something from Alan, but when he declined and turned to go back into the house, Eric shot him in the back, mortally wounding him.<ref name=dossier/><ref name=amok/> From 7:30 a.m. onwards, Borel started shooting people at random. No one grew suspicious of his rifle until it was too late, as it was ] and thus the sight of rifles outside not unexpected.{{fact}} | ||
| First he shot at Ginette Vialette through an open window, mortally wounding her, as well as Denise Otto, whom he killed, while she was bringing the trash out. He also hit Denise's husband, Jean, in the shoulder. Subsequently Borel injured an elderly woman who was walking in the streets with her husband and shot and wounded two brothers who were crossing his path. The shots he fired at Rodolphe Incorvailla, once again through an open window, were eventually lethal. He later died in a hospital. Borel crossed the street to shoot and kill shopkeeper Mario Pagani, who was out buying a newspaper, with shots in the abdomen and head, as well as ] Mohammed Maarad in front of the "Café du Commerce". Marius Boudon and André Touret were killed while they were drawing money from an ] and Andrée Poletta while she was taking her poodle for a walk. Finally he shot Pascal Moustaki to death at Place Peyssoneau.<ref name=dossier/><ref name=spiegel/><ref name=amok/><ref> (in French), '']'' (September 25, 1995)</ref> | First he shot at Ginette Vialette through an open window, mortally wounding her, as well as Denise Otto, whom he killed, while she was bringing the trash out. He also hit Denise's husband, Jean, in the shoulder. Subsequently Borel injured an elderly woman who was walking in the streets with her husband and shot and wounded two brothers who were crossing his path. The shots he fired at Rodolphe Incorvailla, once again through an open window, were eventually lethal. He later died in a hospital. Borel crossed the street to shoot and kill shopkeeper Mario Pagani, who was out buying a newspaper, with shots in the abdomen and head, as well as ] Mohammed Maarad in front of the "Café du Commerce". Marius Boudon and André Touret were killed while they were drawing money from an ] and Andrée Poletta while she was taking her poodle for a walk. Finally he shot Pascal Moustaki to death at Place Peyssoneau.<ref name=dossier/><ref name=spiegel/><ref name=amok/><ref> (in French), '']'' (September 25, 1995)</ref> | ||
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| Eric Borel | |
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| Born | Eric Borel |
| Cause of death | Suicide by gunshot wound to the head |
| Occupation | Student (Electromechanics) |
| Details | |
| Date | September 23 – September 24, 1995 |
| Location(s) | Solliès-Pont & Cuers, France |
| Killed | 15 |
| Injured | 4 |
| Weapons | .22 LR rifle Pistol Baseball bat Hammer |
Eric Borel (c. 1979 - September 24, 1995) was a French spree killer who, at the age of 16, murdered his family, and afterwards shot dead twelve other people and injured four more in a half-hour rampage through the streets of Cuers in the arrondissement of Toulon, before committing suicide.
Biography
Childhood
Eric Borel was the son of Marie-Jeanne Parenti and Jacky Borel, who were both working in the military at the time of his birth. However, their liaison was rather short, and after their paths departed, Eric was sent to Jacky's parents in Limoges, where he stayed until he was five. When his mother, who had visited Eric only occasionally up to that time, married Jean-Yves Bichet, she again took care of her son, much to his dislike, and took him to their home in Solliès-Pont.
Eric's mother, an authoritarian and – at least outwardly – religious person, mistreated and beat him, who she believed to be a "child of sin"; moreover he never developed a close relationship with his stepfather. Thus, when Eric broke his arm at the age of eight, rather than to go home, he preferred to run away and hide, until he was found, shivering from pain. In this type of situation, Eric, who was known as a quiet and taciturn boy who kept to himself and rather tended the chickens in the backyard during his free time than to go out, grew up and developed an increasing admiration for the military, telling lies about heroic deeds of his father during the Indochina War. He had an affection to weapons and used to shoot sparrows with an air gun.
Later years and motive
Until his death Eric attended the lycée professionnel Georges-Cisson in Toulon, where he did quite well academically. He was said to be a disciplined and quiet student, but in his last year at school he showed some radical change in behaviour, skipping classes without permission or explanation and became unaffable. He regularly said that he could not bear it anymore at home, having enough of doing housework and being called names, and often stated his wish to join the military, like his father and grandfather. Apparently he also told one of his classmates at one time that he would like to kill two or three people.
Many reports erroneously stated his room being fully of Nazi-insignia, but besides a picture of Adolf Hitler, cut out from a newspaper, and a few books regarding World War II, as well as a documentary about David Koresh and the Waco siege nothing of significance has been found after his death. Also a girl from Cuers spread the story, Eric had told her about his relationship to his half-sister called Caroline, but this sister in question did not exist either, nor was it true that his father had died from cancer shortly before his rampage.
Attacks
Familicide
The series of attacks started on September 23, 1995 at about 6:00 p.m. CET, when Borel killed his stepfather, Yves Bichet, in the kitchen by shooting him four times with a .22-caliber rifle. Police assumed that they had a quarrel beforehand, when Borel tried to run away from home. Subsequently to shooting Bichet, Borel assaulted his half-brother, 11-year-old Jean-Yves Bichet, who was watching TV, and bludgeoned his head with a hammer. After wiping up the blood trails, he waited for his mother to come home.
As soon as his mother, Marie-Jeanne Parenti, arrived at home from church at about 8:30 p.m., Borel immediately shot her in the head, killing her. Some reports state he also hit her, as well as his stepfather with the hammer and a baseball bat. When his mother lay dead, Borel once again started to clean the house from blood, afterwards taking his rifle and, according to some sources, also a pistol, and made his way towards Cuers, at first by car, but eventually he crashed it into a wall, where he continued his path by foot. Presumably he spent the night between vines.
Shooting spree
On the following day at 7:15 a.m., Borel arrived at the home of his friend Alan Guillemette and when Alan's mother opened the door Eric asked her to wake him. The two had a lengthy discussion in the garden, and apparently Eric wanted something from Alan, but when he declined and turned to go back into the house, Eric shot him in the back, mortally wounding him. From 7:30 a.m. onwards, Borel started shooting people at random. No one grew suspicious of his rifle until it was too late, as it was hunting season and thus the sight of rifles outside not unexpected.
First he shot at Ginette Vialette through an open window, mortally wounding her, as well as Denise Otto, whom he killed, while she was bringing the trash out. He also hit Denise's husband, Jean, in the shoulder. Subsequently Borel injured an elderly woman who was walking in the streets with her husband and shot and wounded two brothers who were crossing his path. The shots he fired at Rodolphe Incorvailla, once again through an open window, were eventually lethal. He later died in a hospital. Borel crossed the street to shoot and kill shopkeeper Mario Pagani, who was out buying a newspaper, with shots in the abdomen and head, as well as Moroccan Mohammed Maarad in front of the "Café du Commerce". Marius Boudon and André Touret were killed while they were drawing money from an ATM and Andrée Poletta while she was taking her poodle for a walk. Finally he shot Pascal Moustaki to death at Place Peyssoneau.
By 8:00 a.m., police arrived at the scene and Eric Borel committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Observers of the rampage stated he had been poised and calm all the while, taking great care at aiming and shooting, hitting most of his victims in the head and returning when he didn't hit properly the first time. In total, Borel fired about 40 shots.
On October 23, 1995, Jeanne Laugiero, 68, died in hospital from injuries sustained in the shooting, raising the death toll to 14 victims. The last death in the killing spree was 68-year old Pierre Marigliano, who succumbed to his wounds on March 2, 1996, bringing the death toll to 15. Borel's shooting spree through the streets of Cuers was the deadliest act of mass murder in France since Christian Dornier killed 14 people in Luxiol on July 12, 1989.
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References
- ^ La tuerie de Cuers (in French), affaires-criminelles.com
- ^ Eine Art von Rache (in German), Der Spiegel (41/1995)
- ^ Eric Borel, ein typischer Amokläufer
- ^ Teen-Age Gunman Kills Himself and 12 Others in France, The New York Times (September 25, 1995)
- Death brings rampage toll to 13, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (September 26, 1995)
- Un joven neonazi mata a 12 personas en Francia (in French), El Mundo (September 25, 1995)
- Le Monde (October 26, 1995)
- Le Monde (March 6, 1996)
External links
- La tuerie de Cuers: forclusion et criminalité, un lien possible?
- Meurtres sans Paroles, Le Monde (.doc-file)
- Tuerie de Cuers: le témoignage du maire, L'Humanité
- Quatorze morts pour un secret, L'Express (October 5, 1995)
- Retour sur la tuerie de Cuers, Le Nouvel Observateur (October 5, 1995)
- Cuers rend hommage à ses enfants assassinés, L'Humanité (September 30, 1995)
- Ein Junge dreht durch, Focus (40/1995)
- Eric, una giornata di follia, Corriere della Sera (September 25, 1995)