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WORLD, Page 33World NotesFRANCEA "Mountain Of Sorrow"
While the easy availability of firearms in the U.S. has helped
produce an epidemic of violent deaths, the affliction is not
uniquely American. Last week in the French village of Luxiol, near
the Swiss border, a farmer with a history of mental illness managed
to obtain a hunting gun and went on a shooting spree that lasted
30 minutes. When the rampage was over, Christian Dornier, 31, had
murdered 14 people, including his mother and sister, and wounded
his father and eight others.
Townsfolk speculated that the killer had become deranged
because of business problems and opposition to his sister's recent
marriage. After shooting his relatives, Dornier drove through
Luxiol (pop. 128) and neighboring communities, picking off people
along the way. One villager shot Dornier in the neck with a rifle,
but that did not stop him. Eventually captured by police, Dornier
was taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. On Friday
he was transferred to a prison hospital near Paris, where he was
reported in stable condition. Said Luxiol Mayor Roger Clausse,
whose five-year-old niece was among the dead: "It's appalling, the
mountain of sorrow that he has caused."