List of major crimes in France (1900–present)

This page presents, in a non-exhaustive manner, notorious or significant French criminal cases whose developments that have taken place since 1900. Types of crime include murders, rape, theft, kidnappings, sex crimes, assassinations, poisonings, drug crimes, war crimes, missing person cases, terrorism, high profile criminal trials and miscellaneous organised crime.

20th century

1901–1910

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1905–1908	Drôme	Chauffeurs de la Drôme	From 1905 to 1908 in the Drôme, acts of banditry followed by assassinations by Urbain Liottard, Octave David and Louis Berruyer.	Urbain Liottard was sentenced to death on 10 July 1909, Octave David to death, and Louis Berruyer to death by the Drôme Assize Court. They were guillotined on 22 September 1909 in Valence.
1907	Seine	Albert Soleilland	On 31 January 1907 in Paris, eleven-year-old Marthe Erbelding was murdered after being raped and stabbed.	Albert Soleilland was sentenced to death on 23 July 1907. He was pardoned and died in prison in 1920 after 13 years of detention.
1907	Gironde	Crime de Langon	On 6 February 1907 in Langon, heinous murder of an insurance agent, Jean-Théodore Monget, strangled with a towel, committed by Jean-Eugène Branchery and Henri Parrot.	Jean-Eugène Branchery was sentenced to death on 29 February 1908, and Henri Parrot to death by the Assize Court of Gironde. They were pardoned on 18 July 1908..
1909	Seine-et-Oise	Marie Bourette	On 22 October 1909 in Le Vésinet, the Belgian tenor Jules Godart was poisoned by Marie Bourette	Marie Bourette was sentenced on 13 July 1910 to forced labor for life by the Seine-et-Oise Assize Court.
1910	Seine	Jean-Jacques Liabeuf	On 8 January 1910 in Paris, a police officer was murdered by anarchist Jean-Jacques Liabeuf.	Jean-Jacques Liabeuf was sentenced to death on 4 May 1910 by the Assizes of the Seine. Executed by beheading on 1 July 1910 in Paris.
1910	Seine-Inférieure	Jules Durand	On 8 September 1910 in Le Havre, Louis Dongé was killed during a fight during a strike.	Jules Durand was sentenced to death on 25 November 1910, by the Seine-Inférieure Assize Court. He was pardoned and released on 15 February 1911, after one year of detention.

1911-1922

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1911–1912	Paris, Val-de-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Oise	The Bonnot Gang of Jules Bonnot	Series of robberies and murders.	The gang's misdeeds notably inspired a film released in 1968.
1913	Loire-Inférieure	Marcel Redureau affair	Murder of seven people on 30 September 1913, in the village of Bas-Briacé, commune of Le Landreau. A fifteen-year-old adolescent, Marcel Redureau, admitted to being the perpetrator of the acts.	The affair particularly interested Gide, who published a collection of documents on the subject in 1930.
1914	Paris	Henriette Caillaux	Assassination of the director of Le Figaro , Gaston Calmette, on 16 March 1914, by the wife of Joseph Caillaux, irritated by a press campaign directed against her husband, Minister of Finance in the Doumerguegovernment.	The President of the Republic gave a statement during the trial. Henriette Caillaux was ultimately acquitted, her crime being considered a crime of passion.
1914	Paris	Affaire Villain	Assassination of socialist leader Jean Jaurès, on 31 July 1914 by Raoul Villain.	Tried five years after the events, Raoul Villain was acquitted on 29 March 1919 by eleven votes out of twelve, while Jaurès' widow was ordered to pay the costs of the trial.
1915–1919	Yvelines	Henri Désiré Landru	Murder of eleven women between February 1915 and January 1919 in Vernouillet and Gambais by Henri Désiré Landru.	L'affaire inspire un film en 1947 de Charlie Chaplin, et plus explicitement Landru (film, 1963) de Claude Chabrol en 1963.
1916	French Algeria	Charles de Foucauld affair	Assassination of Charles de Foucauld, 58 years old, hermit priest on 1 December 1916 in the Algerian Sahara slaughtered by looters.
1917–1922	Corrèze	Tulle Crow Affair	A wave of anonymous letters signed "The Eye of the Tiger" and denouncing the actions of one and all, caused one death in December 1921 and suicides.	This case had national repercussions. Trapped during a group dictation, Angèle Laval was sentenced. She died on 16 November 1967, at the age of 81. The case inspired Le Corbeau byHenri-Georges Clouzot.
1920–1922	Paris	Bassarabo Affair	Assassination of commissioner Georges Bassarabo on 31 July 1920, whose body was discovered in a trunk sent to Nancy. His wife, born Louise Grouès, writer and feminist activist known under the pen name of Héra Mirtel, defended by Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, is being tried in June 1922 at the Seine Assizes at the same time as her daughter, Paule Jacques. At the end of a trial rich in dramatic twists, Paule Jacques was acquitted, and her mother, benefiting from mitigating circumstances, was sentenced to twenty years of forced labour. She died in Rennes on 21 March 1931.	The crime and the trial made headlines because of the accused's personality and the strangeness of the so-called "bloody trunk" procedure. Several books and television documentaries have echoed this.

1923–1930

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1922–1929	Hérault	Pierre Laget	Murders by poisoning perpetrated by Pierre Laget on his first wife on 28 May 1922, then on his aunt in 1923, as well as on his second wife on 12 August 1929. He also attempted to kill his sister by poisoning between December 1929 and February 1930.	The affair inspired a book published in 2015: "The Laget affair, an enigma that shook the South of France".
1923	Finistère ?, Région parisienne ?	Seznec affair	The disappearance of Conseiller départemental Pierre Quémeneur during the night of 25 to 26 May 1923, during a trip from Rennes to Paris. Guillaume Seznec, who accompanied him, was sentenced in 1924 to life imprisonment for murder and forgery.	Following the judgment, around ten requests for review were filed and rejected between 1926 and 2006. The case inspired Denis Langlois to write a book, L'Affaire Seznec (Plon, 1988), which received the Human Rights Prize in 1989 and led to a television film adaptation in 1993 by Yves Boisset, with Christophe Malavoy in the role of Guillaume Seznec.
1925	Paris	Ernest Berger	The murder of Ernest Berger, treasurer of the Action Française, on 26 May 1925, in the Saint-Lazare station on the Paris Métro, was shot in the back by the young anarchist activist Maria Bonnefoy, allegedly for her resemblance to Charles Maurras.	She was declared to have total dementia.
1925	Bouches-du-Rhône	Georges-Alexandre Sarret	Murder by a crook lawyer of one of his accomplices and his mistress on 20 August 1925 in the Aix-en-Provence region.	The case inspired the 1974 film The Infernal Trio.
1926	Paris	Affaire Schwartzbard	Assassination of Symon Petliura, Ukrainian socialist and independence leader on 25 May 1926 by revolutionary activist Sholem Schwartzbard.
1927–1949	Vienne	Affaire Besnard	Death in Loudun of several people suspected of having been poisoned with arsenic by one of their relatives or acquaintances, Marie Besnard.
1928	Paris	Paul Grappe	Murder of Paul Grappe shot dead by his wife Louise Landy on 21 July 1928.	The case inspired André Téchiné's Golden Years, released in 2017.
1928	Alpes de Haute-Provence	Valensole massacre	Deaths in Valensole, of five people including two children in an isolated farm. The two assassins (Jules Ughetto and Micha Witkowski) are quickly arrested, tried and sentenced to death

1931–1940

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1932	Paris, Seine	Affaire Gorgulov	Assassination of President Paul Doumer on 6 May 1932 by Paul Gorgulov.
1933	Sarthe	Christine and Léa Papin	Murder by two sisters, Christine and Léa Papin, domestic employees, of their boss and her daughter on 2 February 1933 in Le Mans.	L'affaire, dans laquelle on a pu voir un drame lié à la lutte des classes sociales, aurait notamment inspiré la pièce Les Bonnes de Jean Genet. Elle inspire également le film Les Blessures assassines et, moins directement le film La Cérémonie de Claude Chabrol.
1933	Paris, Seine	Violette Nozière	Poisoning of his family members by Violette Nozière on 21 August 1933.	The case inspired the 1977 film Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol.
1933	Paris, Seine	Oscar Dufrenne	Murder of Oscar Dufrenne, director of Le Palace, in his office on 24 September 1933.	"The Palace Crime"
1934	Haute-Savoie	Stavisky affair	Death in suspicious circumstances of Alexander Stavisky, on 8 January 1934 in Chamonix.	The affair led to a political and financial scandal and contributed to the fall of the Camille Chautemps government and the outbreak of the anti-parliamentary riots of 6 February 1934. It inspired the film Stavisky by Alain Resnais, released in 1974.
1934	Martinique	André Aliker	André Aliker, a Martinican communist activist, was found dead tied up on 12 January 1934 toCase-Pilote.	His death was a detonator for the workers' movement in the overseas territory of Martinique.
1934	Bouches-du-Rhône	Assassination of Alexander I of Yugoslavia	Assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia by Bulgarian nationalist Vlado Chernozemsky on 9 October 1934 in Marseille.	Louis Barthou Minister of Foreign Affairs, wounded in the arm by friendly fire, died shortly afterwards.
1934	Var	Giuseppe Sasia	Murders of four people in Haut-Var.	Italian-born Giuseppe Sasia, nicknamed "the shepherd killer" or "the Haut-Var  killer," murdered four people in a few months. He confessed to the murders before admitting to only two. Convicted in December 1935, he was guillotined in Draguignan on 17 February 1936.
1935	Seine-et-Oise	Murder of Henri Pélissier	Murder of cyclist Henri Pélissier shot dead by his mistress Camille Tharault on 1 May 1935 in Dampierre-en-Yvelines.
1937	Seine-et-Oise, Seine-et-Marne	Affaire Weidmann	Kidnappings and murders of six people, from 21 July to 27 November 1937 by Eugène Weidmann.	The last convict to be guillotined in public in France.
1938	Ille-et-Vilaine	Maurice Pilorge	Murder of a young Mexican, Nestor Escudero, by Maurice Pilorge on 6 August 1938 in a hotel in Dinard. Pilorge was guillotined in Rennes on 4 February 1939.	The affair, which seems to have marked the writer Jean Genet, is mentioned – at least the name of Pilorge – notably in Notre-Dame des Fleurs.
1940–1943	Manche	Marie-Louise Giraud	Twenty-seven illegal abortions in the Cherbourg region by Marie-Louise Giraud.	She is the only woman – but not the only person  – to have been guillotined for this reason in France. She inspired the film Une affaire de femmes by Claude Chabrol. Following this affair, a law was passed which promulgated that only a doctor could prescribe an abortion.

1941–1950

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1941	Drôme	Marx Dormoy affair	Assassination of politician Marx Dormoy, by Ludovic Guichard, Yves Moynier and Maurice Vaillant, from the La Cagoule, with the complicity of an actress, Annie Mourraille, who served as "bait". It is the death of Maurice Vaillant, with two accomplices, in the explosion of their bomb intended for an anti-Semitic terrorist act, in Nice, on the night of 14 to 15 August 1941, which puts investigators on the right track.	The defendants will never be tried, and will be released from Largentière prison on 23 January 1943, by German soldiers.
1941	Paris	Marcel Gitton	Assassination of Marcel Gitton, politician on 5 September 1941 in a street in Les Lilas by Marcel Cretagne, member of the Détachement Valmy, an action group under the direction of the French Communist Party aimed in particular at executing "traitors".
1941–1944	Paris	Affaire Petiot	Assassination of twenty-seven people during the Occupation, by Doctor Marcel Petiot.	The case notably inspired the film Docteur Petiot, released in 1990.
1941–1944	Paris	French Gestapo affair of rue Lauriston	Many resistance fighters were tortured in this house during the Occupation by French auxiliary agents of the Gestapo from the Bonny – Lafontgroup.	World War II period. Those responsible were brought to justice in December 1944, they are sentenced to death and executed by firing squad.
1943 ?	Moselle	Affaire Moulin	Jean Moulin, a senior French civil servant and resistance fighter , was tortured by the head of the Lyon Gestapo, Klaus Barbie, before dying of his injuries on the train transporting him to Germany shortly before crossing the border.	World War II period. The official date of his death on 8 July 1943, leaves a doubt. The next day, the body of "a French national who died in German territory" – presumed to be Jean Moulin – is repatriated to Paris, Gare de l'Est and immediately cremated, and the urn transferred to the Panthéon contains only the "presumed ashes of the deceased". His torturer, Klaus Barbie, would die in prison nearly 50 years later.
1943	Paris	Julius Ritter	Julius Ritter, an SS colonel who supervised the STO in France, was killed on 28 September 1943 by a team of FTP-MOI.
1944	France	Klaus Barbie affair	Klaus Barbie, German war criminal, SS officer under the Nazi regime, on the run for more than 40 years, was finally extradited from Bolivia to France and was found guilty of seventeen crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment "for the deportation of hundreds of Jews from France and in particular the arrest on 6 April 1944, of 44 Jewish children and 7 adults at the children's home in Izieu and their deportation to Auschwitz. Barbie died in prison in 1991.	"The Butcher of Lyon"
1944	Paris	Alain de Bernardy de Sigoyer	Assassination of Jeanine Kergot by her husband Alain de Bernardy de Sigoyer, on 29 March 1944.
1944	Manche	Clarence Whitfield affair	Rape of a young Polish refugee in a Normandy farm in Sainte-Mère-Église by Clarence Whitfield, a black American GI, a few days after the landing of 6 June 1944 .	Whitfield was convicted and hanged.
1944	Allier	Jean Zay affair	Assassination of Jean Zay, lawyer 20 June 1944 by Charles Develle, head of security for the Militia.	Develle was arrested in Naples , tried in February 1953, Develle was sentenced to forced labor for life by the military tribunal of Lyon, then released two years later.
1944	Ain	Rillieux cemetery murders	Execution of the seven Jews at the Rillieux cemetery 29 June 1944 by the French militia under the responsibility of Paul Touvier, in retaliation for the assassination of the Vichy Secretary of State for Information Philippe Henriot, executed by resistance fighters (having posed as militiamen), in Paris , onJune 28, 1944.	Touvier was hunted down during the Liberation, but he nevertheless managed to hide with friends. A double death sentence was imposed upon meeting him in 1946 and 1947, he took advantage of a lack of surveillance to escape. He went on the run again in Catholic networks, then and finally arrested in 1989, tried and convicted in 1994 to life imprisonment. He is the first Frenchman to be convicted of crimes against humanity. Touvier is also suspected of having murdered the Basch couple in 1944. Touvier dies in prison in 1996 from widespread prostate cancer in Fresnes Prison at the age of 81.
1944	Hauts-de-Seine	Georges Barthélémy	Assassination of Georges Barthélémy, French mayor, on 10 July 1944.
1944	Paris	François Van Aerden	Assassination of François Van Aerden, Belgian diplomat who had taken refuge in France, in mysterious circumstances on 1 September 1944.
1945–1951	Paris	Gang des Tractions Avant	Banditry. Pierre Loutrel, known as "Pierrot le Fou", Émile Buisson, René Girier, known as "René la Canne"	The gang inspired several films, including The Good and the Bad in 1976 and Rene the Cane in 1977.
1946	Indre	Carteron murders	Murder of the Carteron family on 21 July 1946 at "Ajoncs-Barrats" near Bommiers
1946	Indre	Mis and Thiennot affair	Assassination of gamekeeper Louis Boistard, on 29 December 1946 in Mézières-en-Brenne by Raymond Mis and Gabriel Thiennot.
1947	Maine-et-Loire	Germaine Leloy-Godefroy	Axe-murder of Albert Leloy on 10 December 1947 in Baugé, by his wife Germaine.	She is the last person sentenced to death to be executed in France.
1950–1993	Pas-de-Calais, Haute-Savoie	Michel Sydor	Serial killer Michel Sydor. The murder of a prostitute, around 1950, the murder of his wife and attempted murder of his father-in-law near Lens, on 22 December 1961. Years later he committed the kidnapping, rape and murder of 7-year-old Jessica Blanc in Vacheresse, on 25 July 1993.	"The Legionnaire"

1951–1960

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1951	Guadeloupe	Assassination of Amédée Fengarol	Alleged assassination of Amédée Fengarol, 45, mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe on 11 January 1951.
1951	Paris	Pauline Dubuisson	Assassination of Félix Bailly by his ex-lover Pauline Dubuisson, a medical student, on 17 March 1951.	This case inspired the character in the film La Vérité (film, 1960) by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
1951	Loiret	Pierre Chevallier	Assassination of Pierre Chevallier, Member of Parliament (MP) and Secretary of State, on 12 August 1951 in Orléans by his wife Yvonne.
1952	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	Dominici affair	Murder of three members of an English family, Jack, Anne and Elizabeth Drummond, on the night of 4 to 5 August 1952 in Lurs. Gaston Dominici was suspected for a long time but later cleared.	The case notably inspired The Dominici Affair (film, 1973) from 1973, with Jean Gabin in the role of patriarch Gaston Dominici.
1953	Pyrénées-Orientales	Marty case	Alleged poisoning of Jeanne Candela with phenethylamine by her cousin Marguerite Marty.
1954	Paris	Jacques Fesch	Robbery followed by the murder of Jean-Baptiste Vergne, peacekeeper, on 25 February 1954 by Jacques Fesch.	Guillotined on 1 October 1957, he is considered by some Catholics as an example of redemption.
1954–2007	Var, Alpes-Maritimes	Albert Millet	Series of murders in Hyères by Albert Millet between 1954 and 2007. Also an attempted murder on 17 February 2002 in Nice.	"The Moorish Boar"
1955	Protectorat français au Maroc	Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil	Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil, 60-year-old French businessman and political activist, shot dead on 11 June 1955 in Casablanca.	The main witness was found "murdered or committed suicide" a month after the events.
1955	Somme	Murder of Janet Marshall	Murder of Janet Marshall, a 29-year-old British schoolteacher, on 28 August 1955 at the La Chaussée-Tirancourt by Robert Avril.
1956	Meuse	Uruffe priest case	Murder of Régine Fays, 19 years old, on 3 December 1956 on the road leading to Pagny-la-Blanche-Côte by the Catholic priest Guy Desnoyers, because she was pregnant by him.
1955	Montfort-l'Amaury	Montfort-l'Amaury double murder case	The accused and the two victims were negotiating a military contract. He had passed them the file of "Captain Lahana-Landrieux", former leader of the BCRA then of the SDECE, who committed suicide in 1946. Common actors with the Lemaigre Dubreuil Affair killed by La Main Rouge on 11 June 1955, the main witness "assassinated or committed suicide" a month later and the White Valley Affair of 8 April 1956.	The double murder of Montfort-l'Amaury took place only one kilometer from the Rompu Pond scne of the Robert Boulin Affair
1956	Chamonix	White Valley Affair	Death at 3000 meters altitude, along with former ski champion Henryk Mückenbrunn and Paul Demarchi, the most famous of the Chamonix guides, of the international trafficker of precious metals Frédéric Ebel, close to Jacques Franchi, of the "cigarette gang" . Ebel is wanted by the police. His accomplice managed to get to Italy before. The anger caused by the loss of Demarchi played a role in the Vincendon and Henry Case eight months later.	The Vallée Blanche affair inspired a novel written by a friend of the victims.
1958–1959	Seine-et-Marne, Val-de-Marne	Georges Rapin	Crimes committed by Georges Rapin.	"Mr. Bill"
1959–1980	Hérault, Var, Corse-du-Sud.	Tommy Recco	Tommy Recco murdered his godfather in Propriano in 1960, then three cashiers in 1979 in Béziers, and three people in 1980 in Carqueiranne. He is suspected of being behind the disappearance of three German tourists in Propriano in 1959.	Tommy Recco, imprisoned since 1980, is the oldest prisoner in France.

1961–1970

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1961	French Algeria	Barthélémy Rossello	Barthélémy Rossello, a 25-year-old agent of the Commando Jaubert, was shot dead by the OAS on 19 March 1961.
1961	Haute-Savoie	Blanc Affair	Assassination of Camille Blanc, mayor of Evian, on 31 March 1961in Évian-les-Bains by the OAS.
1961	French Algeria	Roger Gavoury	Roger Gavoury, 25 years old, central commissioner of Algiers, was assassinated in the exercise of his duties as central commissioner of Algiers on 31 May 1961. He was the first civil servant killed by the OAS.	Ten people involved in his assassination were brought before the military tribunal by decree of the President of the Republic on 6 February 1962, including deserter lieutenant Roger Degueldre (then on the run), deserter sergeant Albert Dovecar and Claude Piegts: for the latter, the trial took place at the Palais de justice de Parisfrom 26 to 30 March 1962. Arrested on 7 April 1962, Roger Degueldre appeared on 28 June 1962 before the Military Court of Justice, at Fort Neuf de Vincennes. The first two were executed on 7 June 1962, the third on 6 July 1962.
1961	Marne	1961 Vitry-Le-François train bombing	Bomb attack carried out by the OAS on 18 June 1961 leaving 24 dead and 132 injured.
1961	Rhône	Deveaux Affair	Assassination of Dominique Bessard on 7 July 1961in Bron-Parilly in the suburbs of Lyon. Case of miscarriage of justice: Jean-Marie Deveaux, retried, was acquitted in 1969.	The second trial is at the origin in France of the law on compensation for persons acquitted, discharged or having had their case dismissed, having suffered detention which caused them particularly serious harm.
1961–1979	France, Québec, Suisse, Espagne, Italie, Belgique	Jacques Mesrine	Banditry, robberies, escapes, kidnapping, attempted assassination by Jacques Mesrine.	Jacques Mesrine was shot dead by police on 2 November 1979.
1962	Algérie française	Camille Petitjean	Camille Petitjean, an engineer from Arts et Métiers, was kidnapped on 26 February 1962 in Rouïba.	His body was found riddled with bullets near Orléansville in March 1962.
1962	Hauts-de-Seine	1962 Issy-les-Moulineaux bombing	Car bomb attack in Issy-les-Moulineaux on 10 March 1962, resulting in the death of three people and injuring forty-seven.
1962	Hauts-de-Seine	Petit-Clamart attack	Attempted assassination of President of France Charles de Gaulle, on the evening of 22 August 1962 in Clamart, in the southern suburbs, near Paris.	A group (OAS-Métropole / OAS-CNR) led by lieutenant-colonel Jean Bastien-Thiry wanted to assassinate Prseident de Gaulle. The attempt failed and they were brought to justice: only Bastien-Thiry was sentenced to death and shot, becoming the last person to be executed by firing squad in France
1962–1963	Loire	Saïb Hachani	Series of murders perpetrated by Saïb Hachani for financial gain.	On 22 March 1966, Saïb Hachani was guillotinéd.
1963	Hauts-de-Seine	Henri Lafond affair	Henri Lafond, a banker, was assassinated on 6 March 1963 with three shots from an 11.43 pistol by Jean de Brem, journalist and former paratrooper.	On 18 April 1963, de Brem was shot dead by police on Sainte-Geneviève mountain, while trying to steal a car to escape.
1964	Essonne	Lucien Léger	Lucien Léger murdered 11-year-old Luc Taron on 27 May 1964 in the woods of Verrières-le-Buisson.
1964	Var	Saint-Aubin affair	On 5 July 1964 near Fréjus, two young people, Jean-Claude Saint-Aubin and Dominique Kaydash were killed in a car accident. The Saint-Aubin parents claimed that their son was the victim of an attack by the French secret services. A military truck was believed to have caused the accident.	In 1990, the Ministry of Justice awarded Mr and Mrs Saint-Aubin compensation of 500,000 francs for the poor functioning of the judicial system.
1965	Bouches-du-Rhône	Robert Blémant	Assassination of Robert Blémant, former police officer and resistance fighter on 15 May 1965 in his car.	Blémant's two assassins were also murdered in 1966 and 1969, along with their accomplice who was driving the car during the murder.
1965	Paris	Disappreacne of Mehdi Ben Barka	Kidnapping and disappearance of Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka on 29 October 1965.
1966	Cher	Georges Segretin case	Assassination of Georges Ségretin, head of the Société Générale office in La Guerche by Ernest Rodric.	"The Bois Bleu Affair." Monique Case is finally cleared.
1966	Marne, Ardennes	Nylon Mask Gang	Multiple robberies and involuntary manslaughter	Janos C. was sentenced to 12 years in prison. Ferenc E. commited suicide.
1967	Moselle	Günther Volz	Günther Volz raped and murdered 9-year-old Solange Kintzinger in Basse-Yutz on 13 March 1967.
1967	Bouches-du-Rhône	Antoine Guérini	Murder of gangster Antoine Guérini, in his car on 23 June 1967.
1967	Bouches-du-Rhône ?	Guérini brothers case	Barthélemy Guérini, François Guérini and Pascal Guérini were arrested for the murder of a burglar who attacked Antoine Guérini's villa during his funeral. The burglar's name was Mondroyan and he had returned to the scene to return what he had stole.	François died in prison shortly after and Barthélemy was sentenced to twenty years in prison, despite having constantly proclaimed his innocence, and Pascal to fifteen years. Barthélemy died of rectal cancer in 1982, in a clinic in Montpellier.
1967	Aisne	Jean-Laurent Olivier	Murders of Pierrette Demarle, twelve years old, and her brother Lucien, ten years old, on 17 June 1967 in Montlevon by Jean-Laurent Olivier, farm worker.
1968	Yvelines	Marković affair	Assassination of Stevan Marković, employee of Alain Delon.	The murder remains officially unsolved, but the case sets the media in motion when it involves Claude Pompidou, the wife of the former Prime Minister and future President of France, with certain Parisian circles attempting to graft onto this crime a state scandal targeting Georges Pompidou.
1968	Savoie	Thévenin affair	Suspicious death of a young man, Jean-Pierre Thévenin, in a cell at the Chambéry police station.	This case gave rise to militant demonstrations and inspired a play, I have confidence in the justice of my country by Alain Scoff (1973).
1968 – 1990	Paris, Orne	Jean-Charles Willoquet	Banditry, robberies, escape by Jean-Charles Willoquet.
1969	Paris	Delaunay Pharmacy Case	Bloody robbery of the Delaunay pharmacy, costing the lives of two people and injuring two others on 19 December 1969. Pierre Goldman, initially found guilty, saw the court's decision overturned. He was murdered himself ten years later.	Following the Goldman trial, left-wing intellectual and artistic figures such a Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Signoret and Maxime Le Forestier – who wrote his song La Vie d'un homme about him – took up his cause.
1969 – 1976	Oise	Marcel Barbeault	Series of murders committed by Marcel Barbeault, in the Nogent-sur-Oise region.	"The Shadow Killer"

1971–1980

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1971	Aube	Affair of Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems	Hostage taking, two of whom are killed on 21 September 1971 at prison de Clairvaux.	The case, which led in 1972 to the execution of the two men, Buffet and Bontems, had an influence on one of the latter's two lawyers, Robert Badinter, convinced that his client had not killed anyone, and who less than ten years later would be the main architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France.
1971 – 1999	Seine-et-Marne	Lydia Gouardo case	Kidnapping, rape and torture of Lydia Gouardo by her legitimate (but not biological) father Raymond Gouardo for 28 years.	Raymond died unpunished from an illness. Lucienne Ulpat, Lydia's stepmother, was sentenced to four years in prison, suspended, for failure to prevent a crime in 2008.
1971	Alpes-Maritimes	Ali Ben Yanes	Mother assaulted and her seven-year-old daughter murdered on 28 September 1971 by Ali Ben Yanes.	"The Gattières throat-cutter”
1971 – 1993	Cher, Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude	Patrick Tissier	Series of rapes and murders by Patrick Tissier.	"The Ogre of Perpignan"
1972	Hauts-de-Seine	Murder of Pierre Overney	Murder of Pierre Overney, a Maoist activist of the Proletarian Left, on 25 February 1972 by Jean-Antoine Tramoni, Renault security officer.	Tramoni was assassinated in Limeil-Brévannes by two killers on a motorbike on 23 March 1977.
1972	Pas-de-Calais	Murder of Brigitte Dewèvre	Murder of Brigitte Dewèvre, sixteen years old, on 6 April 1972.	Far-left activists took advantage of the bourgeois background of two suspects to turn the case into a symbol of class struggle in a region hit by the closure of coal mines, but the two suspects were eventually released due to lack of evidence.
1972	Seine-Saint-Denis	Bobigny trial	Abortion of a minor girl Marie-Claire Chevalier following rape, at a time when abortion was still criminalized.	The case had a huge impact and contributed to the move towards the decriminalization (1975) of voluntary termination of pregnancy.
1972	Charente	Méchinaud family disappearance	Disappearance of the Méchinaud family on 25 December 1972, near Cognac.	This case is absolutely unique to date in the annals of French justice, since it is the only case in France where, after the disappearance of an entire family, none of the bodies have ever been found, nor the car, and where there is neither the slightest testimony nor the slightest clue, nor anything that would allow the investigation to be directed. Bad nighttime encounter? Mass suicide? Murder of the family by the father, before he himself took his own life or fled? Hasty flight of the family abroad to start a new life there? All these avenues (and others) have been explored by the gendarmes in charge of the investigation, in vain.
1973	Rhône	Jean Augé	Assassination of the criminal Jean Augé on 15 June 1973 in Caluire-et-Cuire.
1974	Bouches-du-Rhône	Christian Ranucci case	Kidnapping and murder of Marie-Dolorès Rambla, eight years old, on 3 June 1974 in the Marseille region by Christian Ranucci.	Condamné à mort le 10 et exécuté le 28 juillet de la même année. L'affaire a inspiré le livre, adapté au cinéma, Le Pull-over rouge Sentenced to death on 10 March 1976 and executed on 28 July of the same year. The case inspired the book, adapted for the cinema, Le Pull-over rouge (film)(Ramsay, 1978), instilling doubt as to Ranucci's guilt, which book (and film) was able to weigh in the debates concerning the abolition of the death penalty in France, and in any case on public opinion. Following the publication of Le Pull-over rouge, three requests for review were filed and rejected.
1974	Bouches-du-Rhône	Hamida Djandoubi	Kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of Elisabeth Bousquet on 3 July 1974in the Marseille region by Hamida Djandoubi.	Last death row inmate executed in France.
1974	Bouches-du-Rhône	Tonglet-Castellano case	Rape of two young Belgian women in August 1974 in a cove in Marseille, by three young local residents.	Thanks to the tenacity of the victims' lawyers, and particularly Gisèle Halimi, the trial was held before the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court (and not before the criminal court) in 1978. The three men were sentenced to moderate prison terms (six and four years). The trial sparked a social debate and a wider awareness of what rape was, leading to its criminalization in 1980.
1974 – 1983	Paris, Haute-Vienne, Drôme, Bouches-du-Rhône	Carlos the Jackal	Carlos, a Venezuelan terrorist, carried out the attack on the Publicis drugstore that killed two people and injured 34 others. On 15 September 1974, murders of Raymond Dous and Jean Donatini, inspectors at the DST and of Michel Moukharbalun, Lebanese national on the night of 27 June 1975 by the same author, attack on the Capitol which cost the lives of 5 people and injured 28 committed by the latter, he used a car bomb in front of the headquarters of the newspaper Al-Watan al-Arabi on 22 April 1982 (one dead, 63 injured), in the TGV near Tain-l'Hermitage and at the Marseille-Saint-Charles station on 31 December 1983 (5 dead and 50 injured).	The Venezuelan serial killer, nicknamed Carlos, the "killer without borders", he reigned terror in France and Europe for nearly twenty years, committing a series of murders and attacks. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
1975	Charente-Maritime	Guy Mauvillain	Murder of Elise Meilhan, a 76-year-old retired music teacher, on 9 January 1975 in La Rochelle.	Sentenced to eighteen years in prison at the end of 1975, Guy Mauvillain was retried and acquitted on 29 June 1985.
1975	Rhône	François Renaud	Assassination of Judge François Renaud on 3 July 1975 in Lyon.	Renaud is the first magistrate to be assassinated since the Occupation in France. After seventeen years of investigation, investigating judge Georges Fenech issued a non-lieu on 17 September 1992. His life inspired the film "Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff" (1977).
1975	Nord	Jérôme Carrein	Murder of eight-year-old Cathy Petit on 27 October 1975 in Arleux by Jérôme Carrein.	Penultimate death row inmate executed on 23 June 1977 in Douai.
1975 – 2000	Yonne	Case of the missing women of Yonne	Rapes and murders of several young mentally handicapped women by Émile Louis. Some bodies were never found.	The investigation, which had been abandoned, was relaunched by the audiovisual media and the case was thus resolved.
1975 – 2007	Nord	Francis Evrard case	Kidnapping and rape of 5-year-old Enis Kocakurt on 15 August 2007 in Roubaix by Francis Evrard, a serial rapist.	The television channel France 2 obtained authorization to film the trial, for a program broadcast on 14 October 2010.
1976	Aube	Patrick Henry	Kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old boy Philippe Bertrand by Patrick Henry in Troyes.	Journalist Roger Gicquel will open the TF1 news with the phrase "France is afraid". A central issue in the debates concerning the abolition (1981) of the death penalty in France. Henry, who suffered from lung cancer, died on 3 December 2017, after 40 years of detention, less than three months after his release from prison.
1976	French Territory of the Afars and the Issas	Loyada hostage crisis	5-year-old Nadine Durand and 8-year-old Valérie Geissbuhler were killed on 4 February 1976 in Loyada, Djibouti during the assault on the school bus following the hostage-taking by independence activists from the Front de libération de la Côte des Somalis.
1976	Paris	Jean de Broglie	Assassination of MP Jean de Broglie on 24 December 1976.
1977	Alpes-Maritimes	Murder of Agnès Le Roux	The disappearance of Agnès Le Roux, a wealthy heiress to a casino in Nice. Her lover, Jean-Maurice Agnelet, was finally convicted in 2014, nearly forty years after the events.	The case inspired a film by André Téchiné, In the Name of My Daughter, released in 2014.
1977	Somme	Michel Cardon	64-year-old René Roullet, a retired plumber, was tortured and killed at his home in Amiens on the night of 25 to 26 October 1977 by Michel Cardon and Jean-Yves Defosse.
1978	Paris	Édouard-Jean Empain	Kidnapping on 23 January 1978 in Paris, followed by his sequestration until 28 March, of Édouard-Jean Empain, wealthy heir and president of the Schneider Electric group.	The case is the main subject of the film Rapt (2009) by Lucas Belvaux, released in 2009, starring Yvan Attal as the Belgian baron.
1978	Seine-Maritime	François Duprat	Assassination of far-right politician François Duprat in a car bomb attack on 18 March 1978 near Caudebec-en-Caux.
1978	Paris	Henri Curiel	The murder of Henri Curiel, a French far-left activist, in unclear circumstances, while he was on his way to his yoga class on 4 May 1978.	This news item inspired Gilles Perrault to write the book A Man Apart in 1984, which retraces the life and activist commitments of Curiel, particularly in Egypt, alongside the police investigation into his assassination. In January 2018, the French justice system has reopened the investigation into the assassination of Henri Curiel following the posthumous confession of René Resciniti de Says, a member of the Action Française.
1978	Paris	1978 Orly Airport attack	This attack left two police officers dead and five injured, as well as the three terrorists killed.	This attack was the origin of an inter-ministerial circular organizing the beginnings of the plan Vigipirate.
1978	Bouches-du-Rhône	Marseille bar massacre	Shooting, costing the lives of ten people, on 3 October 1978 in Marseille.
1978 – 1985	Tarn, Paris, Hérault, Moselle, Essonne	Bruno Sulak Affair: "The Arsène Lupin of Jewelry Stores"	Bruno Sulak is a famous robber known for his good manners, his friendly demeanor, his audacity, and his robberies without physical violence. He is also famous for several prison escapes.	He died on 29 March 1985 in Paris during an escape attempt.
1978 – 1979	Oise	Alain Lamare	Series of murders committed by Alain Lamare, a model policeman.	"The Oise Killer." The case inspires Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart, released in 2014, as well as an episode of the series Tandem in 2022.
1978	Morbihan	Disappearance of Danielle Judic	26-year-old Danielle Judic disappeared in Belle-Île-en-Mer. Neither she or her car were seen again.	Case not solved as of 2025.
1979	Paris	Assassination of Pierre Goldman	Murder of Pierre Goldman – tried ten years earlier in the Delaunay Pharmacy Case – on 20 September 1979.	The crime was claimed by a mysterious far-right group, Honneur de la Police, but was never solved.
1979	Yvelines	Robert Boulin case	Robert Boulin, Minister of Labour, died in suspicious circumstances on 30 October 1979in a pond in the Forest of Rambouillet.
1979 – 1987	Paris, Yvelines	Action Directe	Series of attacks and assassinations, including those of Georges Besse and the engineer general René Audran, by a terrorist group.
1979 – 1988	Bouches-du-Rhône, Gard	Luc Tangorre cases	A series of rapes from 1979 to 1981 in Marseille, then two rapes in 1988 near Nîmes by Luc Tangorre.	The case was highly publicized, and intellectuals took up Tangorre's defense, including Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Marguerite Duras and Françoise Sagan as well as politicians Robert Badinter, Albin Chalandon, Jean-Claude Gaudin and Dominique Baudis. Tangorre would repeat the offense, demonstrating that they seemed to have been wrong.
1980	Marseille	Lahouri Ben Mohamed case	Racist murder of a teenager by a police officer.	This crime was part of the increase in anti-Algerian racist murders of 1981–1983.
1980	Paris	Assassination of Joseph Fontanet	Assassination of 59-year-old deputy Joseph Fontanet on 2 February 1980.
1980	Paris	1980 Paris synagogue bombing	Anti-Semitic attack targeting the synagogue on Copernic Street, Paris on 3 October 1980.
1980	Isère	Pignot affair	Disappearance of 13-year-old Philippe Pignot on 25 May 1980 in La Morte-sur-Isère.
1980–1998	Vosges, Haut-Rhin	Jacques Fruminet	Serial killer who committed the following crimes: 28 May 1980: Rape and murder of Lucie-Andrée Perrotez-Bottini in Évaux-et-Ménil September 1989: robbery with violence and assault in Colmar, December 1991: two sexual assaults in Colmar 13 November 1998: murder of a woman in Mulhouse 20 November 1998: murder of a woman in Colmar	Convicted in June 1981, to 15 years of criminal imprisonment, by the VosgesAssize Court. Sentenced to four years in prison, in February 1990, by the criminal court of Colmar. Sentenced to nine years in prison, in February 1992, by the criminal court of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Sentenced to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years, in December 2001, by the Colmar Assize "The Killer with a Thousand Faces"
1980	Paris	Louis Althusser	Murder of his wife by the philosopher Louis Althusser on 16 November 1980.
1980-1983	Essonne	RN 20 Murders	Murders of four young blonde women left on the side of the RN 20.
1980–1987	Marne	Mourmelon missing persons case	Disappearances of young conscripts and civilians around the Camp de Châlons.	Chief Warrant Officer Pierre Chanal, the prime suspect, committed suicide at the start of his trial.

1981–1990

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1981	Bouches-du-Rhône	Auriol massacre	On 18 July 1981 in Auriol, execution of Jacques Massié, head of the Service d'Action Civique of Bouches-du-Rhône, and seven members of his family.	Jean-Joseph Maria was sentenced in May 1985 to life imprisonment, Lionel Collard to life imprisonment, Ange Poletti to life imprisonment by the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court
1981	Bouches-du-Rhône	Assassination of Pierre Michel	On 21 October 1981 in Marseille, investigating judge Pierre Michel was assassinated by an armed commando.	François Checchi was sentenced on 30 June 1988 to life imprisonment with a security period of 18 years. François Girard was sentenced to life imprisonment with a security period of 18 years by the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court. Charles Altiéri was sentenced on 19 April 1991 to life imprisonment by the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court . Charles Altiéri was released in October 2014 after 21 years in detention, François Checchi in September 2014 after 28 years in detention, François Girard in February 2017 after 31 years in detention.
1981 – 1986	Paris	The Gang des postiches	A series of robberies involving hostage-taking by disguised gangsters from 6 October 1981 to 14 January 1986.
1981 – 1986	Isère	Pontcharra disappearances	Disappearance of three young women, between 1981 and 1986, in the town of Pontcharra in Isère.	Only one murder case has been solved, that of Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti, 36 years after the events. In May 2022, the murderer (Yves Chatain) admitted the facts. The murder is confessed but nevertheless prescribed.
1981 – 1997	Paris	Guy Georges	Series of rapes and seven murders of young women by Guy Georges.	"The killer of eastern Paris"
1982	Paris	Marcel Francisci	Assassination of the politician Marcel Francisci, 62 years old, nicknamed "the emperor of games", in the parking lot of the building where he lived, Rue de la Faisanderie, on 16 January 1982.	He has already been the target of two assassination attempts (in Corsica in 1958 and nine years later at his home west of Paris).
1982	Bouches-du-Rhône	Murder of Christelle Bancourt	Rape and murder of Christelle Bancourt, aged twelve, in June 1982 in Marseille by Christian Marletta.	Sentenced in March 1985 to life imprisonment. Released in 2006 .
1982	Cher	Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude	Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude, a former member of the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), was assassinated on 13 June 1982 in Argent-sur-Sauldre.
1982	Paris	Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant attack	Anti-Semitic attack targeting a Jewish restaurant on Rue des Rosiers in the 4th arrondissement of Paris on 9 August 1982.
1982	Nord	Brabant killers	Bloody robberies at the Piot grocery store in Maubeuge on 13 August 1982. A police officer was injured, and some boxes of tea and bottles of wine were stolen.
1982 – 1992	Haute-Corse	The Gang de la Brise de Mer	Series of robberies.
1982	Gard	Coral Affair	Sexual abuse of minors in an educational "living space".	The highly publicized affair is notable for the implication of several public figures, which gives rise to suspicions of manipulation of political or police origin.
1983	Alpes-Maritimes	Bernard Nut	Assassination of Bernard Nut, head of the DGSE, shot dead on 15 February 1983 in car in Rigaud.
1983	Isère	Disappearance of Ludovic Janvier	Abduction of Ludovic Janvier, 6 years old, on 17 March 1983 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères.	One of the Disparus de l'Isère
1983	Corse-du-Sud	Guy Orson	Guy Orsoni, 24 years old , nationalist activist of the FLNC was tortured then executed.	His assassins were themselves murdered in the Ajaccio remand center.
1983	Isère	Disappearance of Grégory Dubrulle	Disappearance of Grégory Dubrulle on 9 July 1983, at Rue Adrien Ricard inGrenoble.	He regained consciousness the next day, with serious head injuries, in a landfill in Pommiers-la-Placette.
1983	Paris	1983 Orly Airport attack	Bomb attack in the south terminal hall of Orly Airport by a Syrian branch of ASALA, causing 8 deaths and more than 56 injuries.
1983	Haute-Corse	Assassination of Pierre-Jean Massimi	Assassination of the Secrétaire général de préfecture of Haute-Corse, Pierre-Jean Massimi on 13 September 1983.
1983	Hauts-de-France	Labrousse family murders	On the night of 5–6 October 1983, six members of the Labrousse family were murdered at the family home in Saint-Martin-le-Nœud. The family was killed by Pascal Dolique, an apprentice butcher who was the ex-boyfriend of Caroline, the eldest child, who could not accept their separation. Dolique fatally stabbed the parents, Jean-Jacques and Franciane, aged 41 and 37; the maternal grandparents Georges and Christiane Becquet, aged 62 and 63; Caroline, aged 18; and her younger brother Fabrice, aged 12, who were present in the house. Only Jean-Yves, aged 15, survived his injuries but with from several cognitive disorders. A neighbour, Roland Bizet, 62, also died of a heart attack while calling the police.	Pascal Dolique, 23, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and, by special decision, the criminal court increased the security period to eighteen years.
1983	Gironde – Paris	Lionel Cardon	On 111 October 1983 in Pessac, Lionel Cardon killed a couple of doctors: François-Xavier Aran, a surgeon, was strangled. His wife Aline, an anesthesiologist, was shot dead. While on the run, he killed a national police motorcyclist with a bullet to the heart on 22 November 1983 in Paris.	Lionel Cardon was sentenced on 16 April 1986, to life imprisonment with a security period of 18 years by the Gironde Assize Court. He was released in October 2012 after 29 years in prison.
1983	Bouches-du-Rhône	Gilbert le Libanais	Gilbert Hoareau, a member of the clan of Tany Zampa, deceased godfather of Marseille, was assassinated on 6 October 1983 by five large caliber bullets.
1983	Tarn-et-Garonne	Murder of Habib Grimzi	On 14 November 1983 in Castelsarrasin, Habib Grimzi, an Algerian tourist, was killed on board a Bordeaux-Ventimiglia train by three recruits for the Foreign Legion Command.	Anselmo Elviro-Vidal was sentenced on 25 January 1986 to life imprisonment, Marc Béani to life imprisonment, Xavier Blondel to 14 years of criminal imprisonment by the Tarn-et-Garonne Assize Court . The consequences are unknown.
1983 – 1987	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Jacques Maire affair	Disappearance of two women in 1983 and 1985, and murder of a third in 1987 in the Dombasle-sur-Meurthe region. The suspected killer Jacques Maire was acquitted after a third trial.
1983 – 1999	Bas-Rhin, Yvelines, Eure	Louis Poirson	Series of rapes in 1983–1984, then a series of rapes and murders in 1995–1999 by Louis Poirson.	Nicknamed "Rambo"
1984	Vosges	Murder of Grégory Villemin	Murder of 4-year-old Grégory Villemin, who was found tied up, drowned in the Vologne river on 16 October 1984. A suspect, Bernard Laroche, a member of the family, was shot dead by Jean-Marie Villemin, the victim's father, then Christine Villemin, the victim's mother, was in turn suspected of having killed Grégory. In 1993, she benefited from a dismissal for "total absence of charges", a first in criminal law.	The Gregory affair, due to the sordid nature of the crime and its many twists and turns, is undoubtedly the most publicized criminal case of the second half of the  20th century in France, and remains an enigma to this day. The case particularly aroused the interest of the writer Marguerite Duras who, while convinced of the guilt of the victim's mother, simultaneously justified the act of which she presumed her guilty.
1984	Paris	Dissappearance of Teddy Vrignault	Disappearance of Teddy Vrignault, 55 years old , comedian and actor, on 1 November 1984.	His death was pronounced on 1 November 2004, twenty years after the date of his disappearance, as provided by law in unresolved cases of disappearance.
1984	Paris	Hattab-Sarraud-Subra affair	Heinous murders of two men on the 7 and 17 December 1984, by two young people, using a young girl, Valérie Subra, serving as their "bait".	The case inspired a book, The Bait, from which The Bait (film, 1995) was taken.
1984 – 1987	Paris	Thierry Paulin and Jean-Thierry Mathurin	A series of murders of around 21 old ladies from 1984 to 1987 in the Paris region by Thierry Paulin and Jean-Thierry Mathurin.	Paulin, who had AIDS , died before he could be tried. The case inspired I Can't Sleep, released in 1994.
1984 – 1992	Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle, Ardennes, Var, Finistère, Marne, Pas-de-Calais	Francis Heaulme	Series of at least nine murders by Francis Heaulme	"The Crime Backpacker"
1985	Hauts-de-Seine	Bruno Joushomme case	Murder of Evelyne Joushomme, 62 , by her husband Bruno, a philosophy student, on 28 February 1985, burned out in their 2 CV on the side of a forest road in Chaville.
1985	Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d'Armor	Guy Martel	Guy Martel, a science teacher who already suffered from psychiatric disorders on numerous occasions, killed seven people and injured five others on 19 June 1985.
1985	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Simone Weber	Murder of Bernard Hettier by his former mistress in June 1985.
1985	Isère	Disappearance of Anissa Ouadi	Kidnapping of 5-year-old Anissa Ouadi in Grenoble on 25 June 1985.	Isère missing persons case. She was found drowned on 9 July 1985 in Isère, at the Beauvoir dam.
1985 – 1986	Charente, Somme, Tarn-et-Garonne	Bourdin-Fasquel affair	Kidnapping, sequestration and rape of seven young women, two of whom were murdered, between December 1985 and February 1986.
1985	Loire-Atlantique	Georges Courtois case	Georges Courtois a repeat robber, held around fifteen hostages at the Nantes courthouse with his accomplices, Khalki and Thiolet.	On 28 February 1988, for this hostage-taking and his previous hold-ups, Georges Courtois was sentenced to twenty years in prison, Khalki and Thiolet for the hostage-taking alone to twenty and fourteen years respectively. Courtois left the Saint-Maur central prison on 9 October 1997.
1985 – 1988	Paris, Seine-Maritime	Marie-Élisabeth Cons-Boutboul	Assassination of Jacques Perrot by Bruno Dassac ordered by Marie-Élisabeth Cons-Boutboul, the 27 December 1985. Dassac's body was found on 5 May 1988 in the Port of Le Havre.	Marie-Élisabeth Cons-Boutboul is sentenced, the 24 March 1994, to 15 years in prison for "complicity in murder".
1985 – 1999	Nord	Denis Waxin	Kidnapping and rape of two boys and four girls, murder of three girls by Denis Waxin in Lille and its surrounding suburbs.
1986	Paris	Rue de Rennes bombing	On 17 September 1986, an explosive device exploded in a municipal trash can fixed to the ground on the sidewalk, killing seven people and injuring fifty-five.
1986	Moselle	Montigny-lès-Metz murders	Murder of two children, Cyril Beining and Alexandre Beckrich, on 28 September 1986 in Montigny-lès-Metz. Patrick Dils, initially found guilty of the crime and imprisoned for several years, was finally acquitted during a second trial, the miscarriage of justice having been recognized.	Serial killer Francis Heaulme was sentenced to life imprisonment on 17 May 2017 for the murder of the two children.
1986	Paris	Killing of Malik Oussekine	Murder of Malik Oussekine, 22-year-old student, on the night of 5 to 6 December 1986. He was beaten to death by two "voltigeurs" (motorcycle police officers) in the context of student demonstrations against the Devaquet Bill.	Malik Oussekine, pursued by them to the apartment of a civil servant where he took refuge at 20, Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, was beaten to death and died of cardiac arrest in hospital.
1986	Saône-et-Loire	Murder of Christelle Maillery	Murder of 16-year-old Christelle Maillery, on 18 December 1986in the cellar of a building in Le Creusot, who was stabbed 33 times by Jean-Pierre Mura.
1986 – 1988	Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Var	Roberto Succo	A series of crimes (murders, rapes, burglary) committed in the Savoy region by the Italian criminal Roberto Succo, who was first interned in Italy for having killed his father and mother.	Succo committed suicide in prison on 26 May 1988, using a gas canister and a plastic bag. The incident inspired a play by Bernard-Marie Koltès, created in 1990, and Roberto Succo, released in 2001.
1986–1994	Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne	François Vérove	Rapes, murders, assaults and attempted rapes by "the Pockmarked man". notably the murder of Cécile Bloch	François Vérove, a former gendarme turned police officer, committed suicide in Grau-du-Roi on 29 September 2021, leaving behind a letter in which he confessed to his crimes. His confession was confirmed by DNA testing.
1986–1998	Somme, Pyrénées-Orientales	Gare de Perpignan murders	Isabelle Mesnage, a 20-year-old computer scientist, hitchhiking near Amiens, was abducted, beaten, raped and strangled by Jacques Rançon in 1986. On 21 December 1997, he kidnapped, killed and mutilated19-year-old Mokhtaria Chaïb, in the station district of Perpignan. On 16 June 1998, Marie-Hélène Gonzalez, 22, suffered the same fate.	On 26 March 2018, Ransom was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a 22-year safety period after several convictions.
1986	Haute-Garonne	Disappearance of Martine Escadeillas	On 8 December 1986, in Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Martine Escadeillas, 24, an accounting secretary, disappeared; her body was never found. In January 2014, a relative of the victim relaunched the investigation by pointing to a former jilted lover. He was arrested in January 2019.	On 6 July 2022, Joël Bourgeon was sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder. He appealed but committed suicide in prison before the second trial.
1987	Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne	Murder of Virginie Delmas	On 5 May 1987 in Neuilly-sur-Marne, Virginie Delmas, 10 years old, was kidnapped. Her body was found naked 5 months later in an orchard.	Investigation ongoing; crime unsolved as of 2025.
1987	Hauts-de-Seine	Murder of Hemma Davy-Greedharry	Kidnapping of 10-year-old Hemma Davy-Greedharry, 10 years old, in Malakoff on 30 May 1987.	Her burned body was in Châtillon the same day. Case not solved as of 2025.
1987	Seine-et-Marne	Murder of Perrine Vigneron	Abduction of 7-year-old Perrine Vigneron, in Bouleurs, on 3 June 1987.	His body was found in a rapeseed field in Chelles on 27 June 1987. Case not solved as of 2025.
1987	Hérault	Yves Dandonneau case	Joël Hipeau was murdered in a staged car accident on 6 June 1987 by Yves Dandonneau to receive his own life insurance.
1987	Essonne	Murder of Sabine Dumont	Abduction of 9-year-old Sabine Dumont in Bièvres on 27 June 1987.	She was found dead, naked, raped in Vauhallan on 28 June 1987. Case not solved as of 2025.
1987	Isère	Disappearance of Charazed Bendouiou	Disappearance of 10-year-old Charazed Bendouiou on 8 July 1987 in the Champ-Fleuri district inBourgoin-Jallieu.
1987	Gard	Murder of Évelyne Boucher	Viol et meurtre d’Évelyne Boucher, 16 ans, le 8 December 1987 à Villeneuve-les-Avignon par Robert Greiner, un pompier volontaire.	L'ADN de Greiner est enregistré en 2003 à la suite d'une bagarre ; il sera arrêté trois ans plus tard. Greiner est condamné à perpétuité en 2008.
1987–2003	Yonne, Marne, Ardennes, Loire-Atlantique, Seine-et-Marne	Michel Fourniret	Kidnappings, rapes and murders of at least seven young girls by Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier from 11 December 1987 to 5 May 2001 in France and Belgium. They were convicted in 2008. In 2020 they were convicted of the murder of 9-year-old Estelle Mouzin on 3 January 2003 in Guermantes.	Monique Olivier claims that it was her ex-husband Michel Fourniret, a serial killer sentenced to life imprisonment, who killed Estelle Mouzin on 24 January 2020, 17 years after her death in 2003.
1987 – 2002	Gironde, Landes	Roland Cazaux	Series of rapes committed by Roland Cazaux inArcachon and Hossegor.	"The Cat"
1988 – 2018	Nord	Dino Scala	Serial rapist Dino Scala was indicted on 27 February 2018, 30 years after his first crimes	Le « violeur de la Sambre » est condamné à 20 ans de réclusion criminelle.
1988	Paris	Assassination of Dulcie September	Dulcie September, ANCrepresentative in France , was assassinated on 29 March 1988 on the landing of the ANC offices on the 4th floor of 28 Rue des Petites-Écuries. Five bullets fired at close range from a 22 caliber rifle equipped with a silencer.	Case not solved as of 2025.
1988	Nouvelle-Calédonie	Ouvéa cave hostage taking	This hostage-taking, between 22 April and 4 May 1989, cost the lives of twenty-one people and injured four.	Most of the attackers were killed by the security forces, including Alphonse Dianou, a member of the FLNKS.
1988	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	Murder of Celine Jourdan	Murder and rape of 7-year-old Céline Jourdan on 26 July 1988 in La Motte-du-Caire by Didier Gentil.	Richard Roman, also accused, was acquitted after several years of pre-trial detention.
1988	Isère	Murder of Nathalie Boyer	Abduction of Nathalie Boyer, 15, in Villefontaineon 3 August 1988.	She was found on 4 August 1988 with her throat slit on a path inSaint-Quentin-Fallavier.
1988	Essonne	Murders of Gilles Naudet and Anne-Sophie Vandamme	Murders of Gilles Naudet and Anne-Sophie Vandamme, a young 25-year-old couple and their dog in the Forest of Fontainebleau on 31 October 1988.
1988	Indre-et-Loire	Murder of Françoise Gendron	Murder and dismemberment of Françoise Gendron by her friend Sylvie Reviriego, the 12 December 1988 in Tours.
1988 – 1990	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Rodica Negroiu	Rodica Negroiu, a nursing assistant of Romanian origin, convicted of the poisoning murders on 16 February 1988 in Custinesof her 68-year-old husband Gérard Helluy. Later the death of, and the murder of 82-year-old Raymond Jactel on 14 December 1990 in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy.	She is suspected of the suspicious death of Herman Goldstein, the "poisoner of Maxéville."
1989 – 2017	Paris, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Morbihan, Finistère, Charente-Maritime, Orne, Nord	Joël Le Scouarnec	Dr. Joël Le Scouarnec, a specialist in digestive surgery, was under investigation in May 2017 following several accusations of rape and sexual assault against several people, including a number of children. The known number of victims is 349.
1989	Isère	Murder of Fabrice Ladoux	Kidnapping of 12-year-old Fabrice Ladoux in Grenoble on 13 January 1989.	His body was found in Quaix-en-Chartreuse on 16 January 1989.
1989	Bouches-du-Rhône	Henri Pacchioni case	Henri Pacchioni, professional diver, was sentenced in 1996 for the disappearance of his 32-year-old partner Michèle Moriamé who went missing on 1 April 1989.
1989	Nouvelle-Calédonie	Ouvéa cave hostage taking	Two FLNKS leaders, Jean-Marie Tjibaou, 53, a politician, and Yeiwéné Yeiwéné, his right-hand man, were attending the ceremony to lift the mourning for the 19 militants killed a year earlier during the assault on the Ouvéa cave when they were assassinated by Djubelly Wea on 4 May 1989.	Djubelly Wea was immediately shot dead by Tjibaou's personal bodyguard.
1989	Haute-Garonne	Francazal murders	Rape and murder of three women and murder of a gamekeeper by four deserting paratroopers from the military logistics camp located near the Air Base 101 Toulouse from May to July 1989.
1989	Nord	Ida Beaussart case	Assassination of Jean-Claude Beaussart, shot dead by his 17-year-old daughter Ida, on 18 July 1989 in Salomé.
1989 – 1997	Haute-Garonne, Ariège, Paris	Patrice Alègre	Series of murders and rapes committed by Patrice Alègre in Toulouse, Verdun and Paris.
1989	Paris	Murder of Sirima	Murder of Sirima Wiratunga, a 25-year-old French-British singer on 7 December 1989 by her companion Kahatra Sasorith.	He was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
1989 – 1999	Vendée, Loire-Atlantique	Didier Tallineau	Murder of his 23-year-old partner Catherine Charuau, in August 1989 in Oulmes by Didier Tallineau and murder of Carole Le Yondre, a 20-year-old nursing student, in Châteaubriant on 19 July 1999, in the cellar of his bar.
1989 – 2001	Eure	Marcel Lechien case	3 rapes and 36 sexual assaults on his students by Marcel Lechien, a first grade teacher in Cormeilles.	The alert had first been given in 1996.
1990	Paris	Disappearance of Alain Kan	Disappearance of Alain Kan, the French singer in the night of 14 April 1990.	He was officially declared dead in the early 2000s, although his body was never found.
1990	Vaucluse	Grave desecration at a Jewish cemetery in Carpentras	Desecration of Jewish graves in the Carpentrascemetery on the night of 8 to 9 May 1990.	3 former members of the French and European Nationalist Party (PFNE), confessed on 2 August 1996.
1990	Yvelines	Murder of Joseph Doucé	Kidnapping and murder of Pastor Joseph Doucé, a defender of sexual minorities, including pedophiles, in July 1990.
1990	Isère	Murder of Rachid Bouzian	Kidnapping, rape and murder of 8-year-old Rachid Bouzian on 3 August 1990 in Échirollesby Karim Katefi.	His body was discovered in a garage on 5 August 1990.
1990 – 1991	Val-de-Marne, Paris, Essonne	Rémy Roy	The murders of two homosexuals in Draveil and Champigny-sur-Marne and the murder of another in Paris. Attempted murder of another man on 8 October 1991 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georgesby Rémy Roy.	The "minitel killer" contacted and arranged to meet his victims via the homosexual Minitel rose to kill them under sadomasochistic circumstances.
1990 – 2003	Essonne, Calvados, Marne, Eure, Ardennes, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et-Loire, Drôme	Jean-Luc Blanche	Kidnapping and rape of three women in Caen in 1990 by Jean-Luc Blanche. A new series of assaults, kidnappings, sequestrations, and rapes followed in 2003 after he was released from prison.	"The Rape Backpacker"

1991–1999

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
1991	Alpes-Maritimes	Jean-Louis Turquin case	On 21 March 1991, 8-year-old Charles-Édouard Turquin disappeared in Nice; his body was never found.	Jean-Louis Turquin was sentenced on 21 March 1997, to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Alpes-Maritimes Assize Court. Released on 18 July 2006, after 10 years in prison. He was murdered on 7 January 2017, on Saint-Martin in the Caribbean (case currently unsolved).
1991–1996	Isère	Georges Pouille	On 17 April 1991 in Voreppe Georges Pouille killed Sara Siad. On 24 November 1996, he killed 10-year-old Saïda Berch. The two girls were strangled.	Georges Pouille was sentenced on 11 March 2016 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Isère Assize Court.
1991	Bouches-du-Rhône	Rida Daalouche	On 29 May 1991, Abdelali Gasmi, a 26-year-old heroin dealer, had his throat slit in a bar in Marseille.	Rida Daalouche was sentenced on 12 April 1994, to 14 years of criminal imprisonment by the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court. Acquitted and released on 8 May 1999, after 5 years in prison.
1991	Alpes-Maritimes	Omar Raddad Affair	On 24 June 1991, Ghislaine Marchal, a financially well-off widow, was found dead in the cellar of her villa in Mougins.	Omar Raddad was sentenced on 2 February 1994, to 18 years of criminal imprisonment by the Alpes-Maritimes Assize Court. He was pardoned and released on 4 September 1998, after seven years in prison. Subsequently, two requests for review, based on prior DNA tests, were filed and rejected.
1991–1992	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Vincenzo Aiutino	Between 6 August 1991 to 25 February 1992, Vincenzo Aiutino murdered three young women in Longwy.	Vincenzo Aiutino was sentenced on 6 March 1998 to life imprisonment with a security period of 18 years by the Meurthe-et-Moselle Assize Court.
1991	Pyrénées-Orientales	Christian Van Geloven case	On 19 October 1991, Christian Van Geloven committed the kidnapping, robbery, rape and murder of two 10-year-old cousins Muriel Sanchez and Ingrid Van de Portaeleet in Elne.	Christian Van Geloven was sentenced on 25 March 1994, to life imprisonment with a 30-year security period by the Pyrénées-Orientales Assize Court. He died in prison on 6 August 2011, after 19 years in detention.
1991	Nièvre	Murder of Marie-Claire Bégo	On 25 October 1991, Marie-Claire Bégo, 37, disappeared after getting off her bus in Béard (58160) where she had left her car.	On 27 October 1991, her body was found tied up and partially charred at the Imphy slag heap on the banks of the Loire. She had been raped and then strangled. Investigation ongoing; crime unsolved as of 2025.
1991	Puy-de-Dôme	Bernard Rouhalde case	On 26 November 1991, 43-year-old Françoise Ferreyrolles, was executed by a mafia commando in Clermont-Ferrand, ordered by her husband Bernard Rouhalde, with the complicity of Christiane Seguin, his lover.	Christiane Séguin was sentenced on 27 May 1998 to 16 years of criminal imprisonment by the Puy-de-Dôme Assize Court.
1991	Hauts-de-Seine	Disappearance of Jérôme Cantet	On 14 December 1991, ten-year-old Jérôme Cantet disappeared after going to buy a toy at the La Défense Shopping Center in Courbevoie. On the same day the Olympic flame of the Albertville Winter Olympics passed through the neighborhood square. His skateboard was found in a parking lot, but the boy was never found.	Disappearance unsolved as of 2025.
1992	Seine-Maritime	Murder of Sylviane Kaas	On 5 April 1992 in Anneville-Ambourville, 40-year-old Sylviane Kaas, was killed at home while her children and husband were at the cinema.	Crime unsolved as of 2025.
1992–2002	Oise, Loire, Pas-de-Calais	Jacquy Haddouche	From 30 November 1992 to 13 September 2002 in Beauvais and Saint-Étienne, murder of three men.	Jacquy Haddouche was sentenced on 7 May 2008, to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Oise Assize Court. He died in prison on 23 October 2010, after eight years in detention.
1993	Isère	Marinescu murders	On 7 January 1993, gendarmes discovered the lifeless bodies of Michèle Marinescu, 42, and her daughter Christine, 13, in their house in the commune of Sassenage.	Her husband, Marian Marinescu, is suspected of brutally killing his wife and daughter, but he maintains his innocence and claims he was 2,000 km from the crime scene.
1993	Ain, Jura	Jean-Claude Romand	On 9 January 1993, in Prévessin-Moëns, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife and two children, aged seven and five. He went on to kill his parents on 10 January 1993.	Jean-Claude Romand was sentenced on 2 July 1996, to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Ain Assize Court. He was released on 28 June 2019, after 26 years in prison.
1993–2001	Hérault, Aude	Albert Foulcher	On 21 January 1993 in Pailhès, revenge murder of André Meffray, 64 years old. Later repeated the offense on 8 January 2001, killed police officers Hervé Prior, 40, Patrick Rigaud, 45, Pascal Herrero, 45, and Maurice Michaud, 52, in Narbonne.	The perpetrator, Albert Foulcher, committed suicide on 17 January 2001.
1993	Aube	Pierre Dubois case	On 21 April 1993, Denise Descaves a college principal was murdered by deputy principal Pierre Dubois in Troyes.	Pierre Dubois was sentenced to 20 years of criminal imprisonment on 9 June 2000, by the Aube Assize Court. He was released in 2009 after 12 years in prison.
1993	Haute-Savoie	Murder of Jessica Blanc	On 25 July 1993, Michel Sydor, abducted 7-year-old Jessica Blanc from the village fair at Vacheresse. A few hours later, her body was found at Sydor's home 15 km away. The girl had been raped and then killed. Michel Sydor had already been convicted of the murder of a prostitute around 1950 and his wife in 1961.	Michel Sydor was sentenced on 15 June 1995 by the Haute-Savoie Assize Court to life imprisonment. He died in prison on 1 November 2014 of natural causes.
1993	Savoie, Var	Joseph Messina	On 10 September 1993, at Mont Granier , murder of 27-year-old Thierry Garbolino was murdered at Mont Granier. On 12 September 1993, 30-year-old Magali Ferrand was murdered at Brignoles.	Joseph Messina was sentenced on 13 October 1995, to life imprisonment, with an 18-year security sentence, by the Savoie Assize Court. He escaped in March 2019 after 25 years in prison. He was sentenced to an additional 3 years of imprisonment in April 2019.
1993–1995	Paris	Patrick Trémeau	Patrick Trémeau committed the rape and assault of thirteen women in underground car parks in Paris between April 1993 and 29 March 1995.	Patrick Trémeau was sentenced in October 1998 to 16 years of criminal imprisonment with an 8-year security period by the Paris Assize Court. He was released on 7 May 2005 after 10 years in prison but reoffended within months and was returned to prison.
1993	Hauts-de-Seine	Neuilly kindergarten hostage crisis	On 13 May 1993, a hostage-taking in a nursery school by a man identifying himself as "Human Bomb" in Neuilly-sur-Seine.	Erick Schmitt, the perpetrator, was killed by law enforcement on 15 May 1993.
1993	Paris	Christian Didier	On 8 June 1993, the assassination of the former Vichy police chief René Bousquet in Paris.	Christian Didier was sentenced in November 1995 to 10 years of criminal imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court. He was released on 24 February 2000 after 6 years of detention.
1993	Var	Murder of Barbara Coll	On 21 August 1993, in Saint-Tropez, Barbara Coll, a 29-year-old British woman, was found dead, naked, her clothes folded next to her, near a villa.	Crime unsolved as of 2025.
1993–1994	Val-de-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine	Claude Lastennet	Between 24 August 1993 and 8 January 1994, Claude Lastennet murdered five elderly ladies in Chevilly-Larue, Thiais, Boulogne-Billancourt et Bourg-la-Reine.	Claude Lastennet was sentenced on 22 October 1997 to life imprisonment with a security period of 18 years by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court.
1993–2004	Gironde, Oise, Charente	Raoul Becquerel	Between 1993 to 29 September 2004, a series of kidnappings, sequestrations and rapes occurred in Bordeaux, Crépy-en-Valois, Angoulême and Senlis.	Raoul Becquerel was sentenced on 12 December 2004, to 18 years of criminal imprisonment with a 12-year security period by the Gironde Assize Court.
1994	Var	Assassination of Yann Piat	On 25 February 1994, Yann Piat, a former UDF Member of Parliament Yann Piat was assassinated by a mafia commando in Hyères.	Gérard Finale was sentenced to life imprisonment on 16 June 1994, and Lucien Ferri to life imprisonment by the Var Assize Court. Gérard Finale died in prison on 10 May 2010, after 16 years in prison. Lucien Ferri was released in 2010 after 16 years in prison.
1994	Seine-Maritime	Poisoned Josacine case	On 11 June 1994 in Gruchet-le-Valasse, nine-year-old Émilie Tanay, died following cyanide poisoning in the care of Jean-Michel and Sylvie Tocqueville.	ean-Marc Deperrois was sentenced on 26 May 1997, to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Seine-Maritime Assize Court. He was released on 8 June 2006, after 12 years in prison.
1994	Val-d'Oise	Pierre Lorcy	In June 1994, 88-year-old Gaston Moysset was murdered at his home in Bezons.	Pierre Lorcy was sentenced to 10 years of criminal imprisonment by the Val d'Oise Assize Court on 22 June 2001. He was released in 2004 after five years in prison.
1994	Sarthe	Leprince family murders	On 5 September 1994, Christian Leprince, his wife Brigitte and two of their daughters, aged ten and six, were murdered in Thorigné.	Dany Leprince was sentenced on 11 December 1997, to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Sarthe Assize Court. He was released on 8 July 2010, after 15 years in prison.
1994	Finistère	Murder of Marie-Michèle Calvez	On 22 September 1994, in Penmarch, Marie-Michèle Calvez's car was found burnt out with the woman's body tied up in the trunk.	The family offered a reward to anyone who can provide any information that can help solve the crime. Crime unsolved as of 2025.
1994	Paris	Rey-Maupin affair	On 4 October 1994 in Paris, a murderous attack on a student couple, Florence Rey and Audry Maupin, cost the lives of three police officers and a taxi driver.	Florence Rey was sentenced to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court on 30 September 1998. She was released on 2 May 2009 after 15 years in prison.
1994	Bouches-du-Rhône	Air France Flight 8969	On 26 December 1994, in Marignane, members of the GIA hijacked a plane, followed by a hostage-taking in which three passengers were killed.	The perpetrators, Abdul Yahia, Mustafa Chekienne, Makhlouf Benguetaff and Salim Layadi, were killed by the security forces.
1994–1995	Ain	Sarrasin-Doyonnas affair	On 4 July 1994, in Montagnat a mechanic Gilles Doyonnas, was murdered by his wife Danielle and her lover Patrick Sarrasin. They repeated the crime on 13 October 1995, in Bourg-en-Bresse, killing Sébastien Faisant, a 25-year-old student.	On 30 November 1999, Patrick Sarrasin was sentenced to life imprisonment, Danielle Doyonnas to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Ain Assize Court.
1994–2006	Haut-Rhin, Bas-Rhin	Yvan Keller	From 1994 to 2006 in Alsace, Yvan Keller killed at least forty elderly women, suffocating them to make them look like natural deaths.	Yvan Keller committed suicide before his trial on 22 September 2006.
1995	Yvelines	Louveciennes massacre	On 26 February 1995, Alexi Polevoi murdered six members of his family in Louveciennes.	Alexi Polevoi was sentenced to 8 years of criminal imprisonment by the Yvelines Assize Court on 14 March 1998. He was released on 8 July 2000 after 5 years in prison.
1995	Bas-Rhin	Murder of Carole Prin	On 16 May 1995, 37-year-old pregnant woman Carole Prin was murdered in Strasbourg by her companion, Roland Moog.	Roland Moog was sentenced on 28 November 2001 to 25 years of criminal imprisonment with a 15-year security period by the Bas-Rhin Assize Court. He was released in 2015.
1995	Rhône	Saint-Andéol massacre	On 30 May 1995, in Saint-Andéol-le-Château, murder of the Bébien couple and two of their children.	In October 1999, Éric Bruyas was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Rhône Assize Court. Detained since 16 June 1995, he was released in October 2021 and died in 2022.
1995	Paris, Rhône	1995 France bombings	Between 11 July 1995 and 17 October 1995, a series of attacks killed 8 people in Paris and Villeurbanne.	The perpetrator, Khaled Kelkal, was killed by law enforcement on 29 September 1995.
1995	Essonne	Murder of Gilles Andruet	On 22 August 1995, Gilles Andruet, a 38-year-old chess champion was murdered in Saulx-les-Chartreux.	Crime unsolved as of 2025.
1995	Var	Cuers massacre	On 23 September 1995, 16-year-old Éric Borel murdered three members of his family were murdered in Solliès-Pont. The next day he carried out a massacre of twelve people in the village of Cuers.	Eric Borel committed suicide on 24 September 1995.
1995	Pyrénées-Orientales	Dissappearance of Tatiana Andújar	On 24 September 1995, 17-year-old Tatiana Andújar, disappeared in the station area of Perpignan. The case was linked to the Gare de Perpignan murders.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
1996	Nord	Gang de Roubaix	From 27 January 1996 to 29 March 1996 in the Nord department, a series of robberies, three murders and an attempted attack.	Omar Zemmiri was sentenced on 18 October 2001 to 28 years of criminal imprisonment, Hocine Bendaoui to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Nord Assize Court. Omar Zemmiri was released in 2013 after 16 years of detention, Hocine Bendaoui was released in 2011 after 15 years of detention.
1996–2000	Paris	Brumark-Bourgeois affair	An international prostitution ring involving influential Middle Eastern clients and prominent figures in the business and show business worlds. Producers Alain Sarde, Christophe Lambert and Robert De Niro are implicated.	The judicial aspect resulted in the conviction of Jean-Pierre Bourgeois and Annicka Brumark for pimping.
1996	Haut-Rhin	Charles and Christophe Cretello case	On 2 April 1996, Angela and Alain Hay were murdered by father and son Charles and Christophe Cretello in Rosenau.	Charles Cretello was sentenced in June 2003 to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period, while Christophe Cretello was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by the Haut-Rhin Assize Court.
1996–1997	Seine-Maritime	Jean-Yves Morel case	On 5 April 1996 in La Frénaye, Jean-Yves Morel killed his sister-in-law Marylène Rousset. On 26 June 1997 he murdered Élisabeth Griffin, a chemistry student intern at the company where he worked.	Jean-Yves Morel was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2000 by the Seine-Maritime Assize Court.
1996	Yvelines	Murder of Willy Pomonti	On 16 April 1996, 69-year-old Willy Pomonti was tortured and murdered at his home in La Celle-Saint-Cloud during a burglary.	Michel Ambras was sentenced on 13 September 2010, to 25 years of criminal imprisonment with a 16-year security period by the Yvelines Assize Court. He died in prison in 2017 or 2018.
1996	Paris	Mamadou Traoré	From 23 April 1996 to 30 October 1996, Mamadou Traoré committed attacks on six women, two of whom were fatal, in Paris.	Mamadou Traoré was sentenced on 15 February 2000 to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Paris Assize Court.
1996	Ille-et-Vilaine	Francisco Arce Montes	On 18 July 1996, a British schoolgirl, Caroline Dickinson, was raped and murdered in a youth hostel in Pleine-Fougères by Francisco Montes, a Spanish truck driver.	Francisco Montes was sentenced on 14 June 2004 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a 20-year security period by the Ille et Vilaine Assize Court.
1996	Isère	Disappearance of Léo Balley	On 19 July 1996, 6-year-old Léo Balley disappeared in Taillefer. His body was never found.	Linked with the Disparus de l'Isère. Case unsolved as of 2025.
1996	Paris	1996 Paris RER bombing	On 3 December 1996, in Paris, four people were killed and 91 others were injured in a terrorist attack on the Réseau Express Régional.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
1996	Lot-et-Garonne	Disappearance of Marion Wagon	On 14 November 1996, Marion Wagon, a 10-year-old schoolgirl, disappeared a few hundred metres from her home in Agen.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
1996	Saône-et-Loire	Murder of Christelle Blétry	On 27 December 1996, 20-year-old Christelle Blétry was found dead in Blanzy with 123 stab wounds by farm worker Pascal Jardin.	Pascal Jardin was sentenced on 2 February 2017 to life imprisonment with a 20-year security period by the Saône-et-Loire Assize Court.
1997	Aisne	Jean-Baptiste Hennequin	On 20 January 1997, the murder of the couple of directors and the receptionist of the Grand Hotel in Saint-Quentin by Jean-Baptiste Hennequin.	Jean-Baptiste Hennequin was sentenced in June 1999 to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Aisne Assize Court.
1997	Côte-d'Or	Disappearance of Virginie Bluzet	On 7 February 1997, 21-year-old Virginie Bluzet disappeared in Beaune. One of the A6 disappearances.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
1997	Pas-de-Calais	Jourdain brothers	On 11 February 1997, four young girls were kidnapped, raped and held captive, followed by the murder of Jean-Michel and Jean-Louis Jourdain while they were on their way to the carnival in Le Portel.	Jean-Michel Jourdain was sentenced on 27 October 2000 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years, Jean-Louis Jourdain to life imprisonment with a security period of 20 years by the Pas-de-Calais Assize Court. Jean-Louis Jourdain died in detention on 9 March 2019 after 21 years in detention.
1997–1998	Yvelines	Christine Malèvre	From February 1997 to May 1998, in Mantes-la-Jolie, murder of six patients by Christine Malèvre, a hospital nurse.	Christine Malèvre was sentenced to 12 years of criminal imprisonment by the Yvelines Assize Court on 31 January 2003. She was released in August 2007 after four years in prison.
1997	Savoie	Disappearance of Cécile Vallin	On 8 June 1997, 17-year-old Cécile Vallin disappeared in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
1997	Yvelines	Atouillant affair	On 14 October 1997, the murder of an infant by a childminder who was looking after him in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse.	Marie-Christine Atouillant was sentenced on 20 October 2004 to 12 years of criminal imprisonment by the Yvelines Assize Court.
1997–1999	Essonne, Aveyron	Alfredo Stranieri	Italian serial killer Alfredo Stranieri committed four murders between November 1997 and March 1999 in Viry-Châtillon and Bez-de-Naussac. The victims were killed during meetings set up through classified ads.	Alfredo Stranieri is sentenced on 28 February 2003 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Essonne Assize Court.
1997	Tarn-et-Garonne	Altobella Cappelleri case	In 1997 in Aucamville, Georges Hourdin was kidnapped, tortured and killed by Altobella Cappelleri in an inn.	Altobella Cappelleri est condamné en 2005 à 20 ans de réclusion criminelle par les assises du Tarn-et-Garonne. Elle meurt en prison en 2015
1998	Corse-du-Sud	Assassination of Claude Érignac	On 6 February 1998 in Ajaccio, assassination of the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, who was shot dead by an armed commando.	Alain Ferrandi was sentenced to life imprisonment on 11 July 2003, and Pierre Alessandri to life imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court. Yvan Colonna was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Paris Assize Court on 13 December 2007. After he was attacked by a fellow inmate on 2 March 2022, Yvan Colonna died in Marseille on 21 March.
1998	Loiret	Murder of Jean-Paul Zawadzki	On 11 March 1998, Jean-Paul Zawadzki was murdered by his wife Nicole with the help of her lover, Doctor Michel Trouillard-Perrot in Sougy.	Nicole Zawadzki was sentenced to 28 years in prison on 20 June 2001, and Michel Trouillard-Perrot to 20 years in prison by the Loiret Assize Court. Michel Trouillard-Perrot was released in December 2007 after 9 years in prison.
1998	Bouches-du-Rhône	Murder of Sylvain Alloard	On 23 March 1998, Sylvain Alloard, 31, was shot dead in front of his home in Marseille.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
1999	Ain, Rhône	Jamila Belkacem affair	On 23 February 1999 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Jacques Brunet was murdered by her lover by Jamila Belkacem by poisoning him.	Jamila Belkacem was sentenced on 4 February 2006 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Loire Assize Court.
1999	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Nadir Sedrati	Between 14 May 1999 to 19 July 1999, in Nancy, three men were murdered and dismembered before being thrown into a canal. Two other alleged murders, committed in May 1982 and October 1994, were also attributed to Sedrati, but without a confession, he was acquitted in 1985 and 1998.	Nadir Sedrati was sentenced on 26 May 2003 to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Metz Assize Court.
1999	Calvados	Godard family disappearance	On 3 September 1999, the doctor Yves Godard, his wife and two children disappeared at sea.	The case was closed on 14 September 2012
1999	Haute-Vienne, Somme, Pas-de-Calais	Sid Ahmed Rezala	From 13 October 1999 to 14 December 1999 in Chabenet, Amiens and Calais, three women aged 20 to 36 were murdered.	The perpetrator, Sid Ahmed Rezala, committed suicide on 28 June 2000.
1999	Tarn	Murder of Evelyn Wilkinson-Lund	On 29 December 1999, Evelyn Lund-Wilkinson dissappeared in Rayssac.	Her second husband Robert Lund was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Tarn Assize Court in October 2007. He was released on 14 September 2013 after nine years in prison.
1999	Charente-Maritime	Véronique Courjault	In 1999 in Villeneuve-la-Comtesse, murder of a newborn by his mother Véronique Courjault, and two other murders of newborns committed in South Korea.	Véronique Courjault was sentenced to 8 years of criminal imprisonment by the Indre-et-Loire Assize Court on 18 June 2009. She was released on 17 May 2010 after 11 months in detention.

21st century

2000 – 2010

Miscellaneous facts / Executions

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2000	Haute-Garonne	Disappearance of Suzanne Viguier	On 27 February 2000, Suzanne Viguier disappeared in Toulouse. Her husband was convicted and later released and acquitted.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2000	Bas-Rhin	Jacques Plumain	On 15 May 2000, Ursula Brelowski was murdered in Strasbourg. She was stabbed twelve times in a forest. The killer was also responsible for two other murders in Germany.	Jacques Plumain was sentenced on 12 April 2006 to life imprisonment with a 20-year security period by the Haut-Rhin Assize Court.
2000	Gironde	Murder of Silja Trindler	On 5 August 2000, Silja Trindler, a young Swiss tourist was murdered inCarcans. She was suffocated on the ground on a beach dune.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2000	Haute-Corse	Assassination of Jean-Michel Rossi	On 7 August 2000 in L'Île-Rousse, Jean-Michel Rossi, Corsican nationalist and one of the founders of the FLNC, was assassinated in a probable settling of scores.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2000–2007	Manche	Céline Lesage case	Between 2000 and 2007 in Valognes, Céline Lesage killed six newborns of whom she was the mother.	Céline Lesage was sentenced to 15 years of criminal imprisonment on 18 March 2010, by the Manche Assize Court. The consequences are unknown.
2001	Hérault	Assassination of Christian Poucet	Assassination of Christian Poucet, president of the European CDCA, in the premises of his company, the CDCI, in Baillargueson 29 January 2001.
2001	Pyrénées-Orientales	Murder of Fatima Idrahou	Fatima Idrahou, 23, was kidnapped and killed on 9 February 2001 by Marc Delpech, a bar owner in Perpignan.
2001	Pas-de-Calais	Outreau case	Child sexual abuse. The case, which began in February 2001, will lead to the recognition of the innocence of the majority of the accused.	L'affaire, qui débouche sur un constat d'erreur judiciaire, donne l'occasion de souligner certains dysfonctionnements de la justice. Elle inspire notamment un film, sorti en 2011.
2001	Haute-Savoie	Murder of Magalie Part	Abduction of 19-year-old Magalie Part, on 26 March 2001. His body was found half-charred on the side of a forest path in Vulbens on 27 March.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2001	Seine-Maritime	Alfred Petit	On 17 May 2001, Jean-Jacques Roussel was murdered and his wife was dismembered Danielle by Alfred Petit, a prisoner on the run, in Saint-Jacques-sur-Darnétal.	Alfred Petit's father, suspected of having dismembered Danielle Roussel, hanged himself on 15 January 2004. Alfred Petit also hanged himself in prison on 17 February 2009.
2001	Corse-du-Sud	Assassination of François Santoni	François Santoni, 41, politician, was assassinated with thirteen bullets on 17 August 2001 at a wedding in Monacia-d'Aullène.
2001	Essonne, Val-de-Marne	Jean-Claude Bonnal	Four people wereshot dead on 6 October 2001 in Athis-Mons by Jean-Claude Bonnal. On 16 October 2001, two police officers were killed in Plessis-Trévise.	"The Chinese" Jean-Claude Bonnal was sentenced on appeal on 4 July 2007 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the ParisAssize Court.
2001	Pas-de-Calais	Murder of Éric Calers	On 2 November 2001, 40-year-old Éric Calers was shot dead in front of his home in Busnes.	A dismissal of the case was pronounced by the Pas-de-Calais Assize Court.
2001 – 2002	Hauts-de-Seine	Marc Machin-David Sagno case	On 1 December 2001, 45-year-old Marie-Agnès Bedot was raped and murdered Murder and rape at the under Pont de Neuilly. On 22 May 2002, Maria-Judith Araujo was murdered.	David Sagno was sentenced at first instance on 23 February 2012 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a 20-year security period by the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court. Marc Machin, initially convicted, was acquitted.
2002	Somme	Murder of Élodie Kulik	Rape, murder and incineration of Élodie Kulik on the night of 10–11 January 2002 in Tertry by several men.	On 1 July 2021, Willy Bardon was sentenced on appeal to 30 years in prison for gang rape, kidnapping and also the murder of Élodie Kulik by the Amiens Assizes.
2002	Alpes-Maritimes	Dubois-Gauvin affair	On 10 March 2002, 72-year-old Francine Raspini, a wealthy rentier, and her 48-year-old son Marc, were murdered in Nice by Philippe Dubois and his friend Patrick Gauvin and his son Laurent Gauvin.	Philippe Dubois was sentenced on 23 June 2006 at first instance to life imprisonment without a security period, Patrick Gauvin was sentenced at first instance to life imprisonment without a security period, Laurent Gauvin was sentenced at first instance to life imprisonment without a security period by the Alpes-Maritimes Assize Court.
2002	Somme	Jean-Paul Leconte	Jean-Paul Leconte raped and murdered 19-year-old Patricia Leclercq on 6 July 2002, before murdering 18-year-old Christelle Dubuisson on 21 August 2002.	Jean-Paul Leconte was sentenced on 5 February 2005 at first instance to life imprisonment without a security period by the Somme Assize Courts.
2002	Nord	Murder of Sophie Berkmans	On 7 October 2002, 41-year-old Sophie Berkmans, a rheumatologist, had her throat slit in her office in Valenciennes by Mohamed Medjahed.	Mohamed Medjahed was sentenced on 8 June 2011 at first instance to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a 20-year security period by the Nord Assize Courts.
2002 and 2005	Paris, Hérault, Puy-de-Dôme, Allier	Lassana Coulibaly	Series of nine rapes preceded, accompanied or followed by torture or acts of barbarity, two attempted rapes and one aggravated sexual assault in Paris, Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand and Vichy by Lassana Coulibaly, a homeless delinquent.	Lassana Coulibaly was sentenced on 23 May 2008 at first instance to 20 years of criminal imprisonment without a security period by the Puy-de-Dôme Assize Court.
2003	Pas-de-Calais	Murder of Monique Lejeune	On 7 February 2003, Monique Lejeune was murdered in Coulogne by Béatrice Matis, a former partner of her husband Claude.	Béatrice Matis was sentenced on appeal on 27 January 2012 to 15 years of criminal imprisonment without a security period by the Assizes of Nord.
2003	Pantin	Murder of Antoine Belmonte	Antoine Belmonte was killed on 22 February 2003 in Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis with a gunshot through his door.	The case was solved in 2025. The victim was mistaken for a police officer of the same name who, in 1992, allegedly killed a 13-year-old boy on duty in a parking lot in Asnières .The alleged shooter admitted the crime.
2003	Paris	Francis Imbard affair	Assassination of Francis Imbard, 59-year-old nightclub and restaurant owner, on 26 February 2003, shot dead on his landing in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2003	Bouches-du-Rhône	Poncé Gaudissard	On 31 March 2003, Chantal d'Amato, 53, a widow, and her daughter Audrey, 24, were murdered in their house in Meyrargues, throats slit by Poncé Gaudissard.	Poncé Gaudissard was sentenced on appeal on 19 March 2011 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Var Assize Court.
2003	Haute-Savoie	Flactif family murders	On 11 April 2003, Xavier Flactif, his partner Graziella Ortolano and their three children were murdered by David Hotyat in Grand-Bornand.	David Hotyat was sentenced on 30 June 2006 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Haute-Savoie Assize Court.
2003	Alpes-Maritimes	Murder of Christophe Dalmasso	Murder of Christophe Dalmasso, a 34-year-old wealthy heir, on 2 September 2003, in Nice by Edno Borba Da Silva, a Brazilian dancer and lover of his adopted daughter Lucie.
2003	Pas-de-Calais	Vincent Humbert case	Death of Vincent Humbert, 19-year-old firefighter, who became quadriplegic, blind and mute, after a serious road accident in 2000. Following an injection of sodium pentobarbital given by his mother Marie Humbert with the help of a doctor, Dr. Chaussoy on 24 September 2003.	The case was dismissed in February 2006. The "Vincent Humbert law" was passed with the aim of decriminalizing the exception of medically assisted suicide in France. His mother died at the age of 63 following a long illness on 5 August 2018.
2004	Côte-d'Or	Murder of Valérie Bary	On 26 March 2004, 38-year-old Valérie Bary was murdered at her home in the hamlet of Laneau, in the commune of Arconcey, by her husband Laurent.
2004	Bouches-du-Rhône	Murder of Ghofrane Haddaoui	On 19 October 2004, 23-year-old Ghofrane Haddaoui, a French woman of Tunisian origin, was stoned to death in Marseille.	Her stoning the day before, after a period of indifference, aroused indignation about the condition of young girls in working-class neighbourhoods in France. On 13 April 2007 the juvenile assize court of Bouches-du-Rhône sentenced the two young people aged 19 and 20 (minors at the time of the events) to 23 years of criminal imprisonment.
2004	Corrèze	Roland Bondonny	Commissioned assassination of hunter Marius Lac on 25 August 2004, following a case of animal poisoning.	Roland Bondonny commited suicide in prison after appealing his conviction.
2004	Yonne	Jean-Pierre Treiber case	Assassinations of Géraldine Giraud (daughter of actor Roland Giraud) and Katia Lherbier, on 1 November 2004 in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. Jean-Pierre Treiber, the main suspect, after a fantastic escape, committed suicide before being tried.	The case is highly publicized, due to the celebrity of the father of one of the two victims and multiple twists and turns.
2004	Alpes-Maritimes	Jamila M'Barek	On 6 November 2004, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury was murdered in Cannes, by his brother-in-law Mohamed M'Barek.
2004	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Romain Dupuy	Murder of a nursing assistant and a nurse on the night of 17–18 December 2004 at the Pau psychiatric hospital by Romain Dupuy.
2005	Seine-et-Marne	Murder of Maryse Louvet	Murder of Maryse Louvet in Mareuil-lès-Meaux on 15 January 2005, by his own daughter, Émilie, and her companion, Driss Sajdi.	Sajdi was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of a young woman in 1991.
2005	Paris	Murders of Christelle and Lucas Leroy	20 February 2005: Murder and dismemberment of Christelle Leroy, 26, and her son Lucas, 5, by his employer and lover Bérenger Brouns.
2005	Somme	Murder of Françoise Chabé	On 26 February 2005, Françoise Chabé was strangled at home inHumbercourt.	Ludovic, her husband, suspected of having killed her, is acquitted.
2005	Gard	Murder of Elodie Morel	Kidnapping, sequestration, acts of torture and barbarity, and murder of Élodie Morel, 29 years old, in Vergèze on 2 May 2005 by Guillaume Mingaud with the help of Richard and Francine Lignier.
2005	Seine-et-Marne	Murder of Nelly Cremel	Murder of Nelly Cremel, 39 years old, in June 2005, near Reuil-en-Brie by Patrick Gateau and Serge Mathey.	The case, which involved a repeat offender and an accomplice, raised the question of conditional release, and was exploited politically by Nicolas Sarkozy, the future president of the French Republic.
2005	Essonne	Jean-Luc Cayez	Rape and murder of 24-year-old Audrey Jouannet on 13 September 2005, in Soisy-sur-Seine, by her caretaker Jean-Luc Cayez, a repeat rapist.
2005	Rhône	Murder of Marine Boisseranc	On 11 October 2005, 20-year-old Marine Boisseranc, an accounting student, was stabbed 12 times in her parents' living room in Chazay-d'Azergues.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2005	Hauts-de-Seine	Dominique Aubry case	Franck Renard-Payen and Olivier Eustache were prosecuted for murder, suspected of having disguised the death of Dominique Aubry as a suicide on 1 December 2005 on a barge in Neuilly-Neuilly-sur-Seine.
2006	Hauts-de-Seine, Essonne	Murder of Ilan Halimi	Ilan Halimi, a young Jewish salesman, was kidnapped, then held captive and tortured for three weeks in an apartment and then a cellar in Bagneux. The victim succumbed to his injuries while being transferred to hospital after being released in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois . More than twenty people were involved.	L'affaire suscite une vive émotion, y compris au plus haut niveau de l'État, du fait de l'antisémitisme des auteurs du crime et des conditions de séquestration et de mort du jeune homme. Elle inspire un film, d'Alexandre Arcady, sorti en 2014.
2006	Corse-du-Sud	Assassination of Robert Feliciaggi	Robert Feliciaggi, 63, a Corsican politician, was shot dead in the parking lot of Ajaccio airport on 10 March 2006.	Dismissal rendered in July 2016.
2006	Côte-d'Or	Murder of Marcelle Bouvard	On 16 April 2006, 79-year-old Marcelle Bouvard was murdered in Ladoix-Serrigny by her great-nephew Geoffrey Perrin.	On 16 September 2009, Geoffrey Perrin was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
2007	Eure	Murder of Gaëlle Fosset	On 27 April 2007, 21-year-old Gaëlle Fosset, a student, was stabbed to death 66 times in her house in Saint-Germain-la-Campagne.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2007	Hauts-de-Seine	Murder Brahim Déby	On 2 July 2007, Brahim Déby, son of Chadian President Idriss Déby was murdered in Courbevoie.
2007	Tarn-et-Garonne	Murder of Anne-Laure Urvoy	On 20 November 2007, Anne-Laure Urvoy a 27-year-old engineer at the Golfech nuclear power plant, beaten and strangled in her room by her partner Abderrazzak Zibha in Valence d'Agen.	Abderrazzak Zibha was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
2007	Oise	Murder of Anne-Lorraine Schmitt	On 25 November 2007 in Creil, 23-year-old Anne-Lorraine Schmitt, was found dead in an RER D after being stabbed by Thierry Devé-Oglou.	Thierry Devé-Oglou was sentenced on 15 December 2010 to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Val d'Oise Assize Court.
2007	Pas-de-Calais	Murder of Laurence Maille	On 28 November 2007, 36-year-old Laurence Maille, was strangled by her companion John Szablewski in Farbus.	John Szablewski is sentenced in March 2011 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a 20-year security period by the Pas-de-Calais Assize Court.
2008 to 2016	Doubs	Frédéric Péchier case	Anesthesiologist Dr. Frédéric Péchier is suspected of having committed 24 poisonings on vulnerable people, including 9 fatal cases, using potassium chloride.	Facts revealed in March 2017 and May 2019, he claims his innocence despite the charges.
2008	Paris, Oise	Murder of Susanna Zetterberg	Kidnapping, sequestration and murder of Susanna Zetterberg, a 19-year-old Swedish waitress, on 18 April 2008 by Bruno Cholet, a repeat offender who posed as a taxi driver.	Hours after the abduction the body was found partly charred in the Chantilly forest.
2008	Bouches-du-Rhône	Patrick Salameh	Serial killer responsible for the disappearances and murders of numerous women in Marseille.	"The Marseille Ripper"
2008	Ain, Loire-Atlantique	Gérald Thomassin	Alleged murder of Catherine Burgod, 41, five and a half months pregnant, a municipal employee of Montréal-la-Cluse on 19 December 2008 by actor Gérald Thomassin.	Thomassin became the prime suspect, but he claimed his innocence. He disappeared on 29 August 2019 in Nantes on the day he was due to appear at the Lyon court to take part in the legal confrontation with the two other suspects in the case.
2009	Cher, Nièvre	Juillet-Rayé affair	Kidnapping and sequestration of Luc Amblard, 56, and his companion Guy Bordenave, 39, two show organizers, from their house in Couy on the night of 7–8 March 2009. They were buried alive on a bank of the Loire at La Charité-sur-Loire by Christophe Rayé and Claude Juillet, the brother-in-law of Guy Bordenave.	Christophe Rayé and Claude Juillet were sentenced to 30 years in prison.
2010	Saône-et-Loire	Murder of Bertrand Touchard	On 3 April 2010, Bertrand Touchard, a truck driver who was drugged, asphyxiated, beaten, strangled and then drowned by Nathalie Chatelot with the complicity of Claire Garcia. The body was discovered on 21 April 2010 in the waters of the Saône.
2010–2018	Val-de-Marne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord, Seine-et-Marne, Val-d'Oise, Oise	Shooting of Aurélie Fouquet	Shooting of 26-year-old Aurélie Fouquet, a municipal police officer on 20 May 2010, in an armed attack on a convoy of funds by four hooded men (including the main suspect Rédoine Faïd) in Villiers-sur-Marne, robbery of an armoured van in Pas-de-Calais in 2011, ordered by Rédoine Faïd.	For the murder of Aurélie Fouquet, Faïd was sentenced, along with his accomplices, to 18 years in prison. For the robbery of an armored van in Pas-de-Calais in 2011, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
2010	Orne	Murder of Arnauld Ghys	Murder of Arnaud Ghys, a 28-year-old butcher in L'Aigle on the night of 9–10 July 2010. The shooting was commissioned by his partner Mélanie Fleury. He was shot in the back with a shotgun by Damien Rolland, her lover, an unemployed house painter.
2010	Saône-et-Loire	Murder of Ghislaine Leclerc	Murder of Ghislaine Leclerc-Bouzaiene, 57, on the night of 26–27 August 2010, in the bedroom of her home in Volesvres , shot four times.	His son-in-law Sylvain Schrutt, once suspected, was acquitted.
2010	Bouches-du-Rhône	Murder of Christophe Lejard	Murder of Christophe Lejard who was shot in the back of the head on 24 November 2010.	The trial was adjourned on 18 May 2015 because his widow, Roseline Lejard, fell ill. On 26 June 2016 she was sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering the murder of her husband. Arnaud Privat, her son from a previous relationship, received a 15-year prison sentence. He had acted as an intermediary between his mother and the murderer, a young resident of Nogent-le-Rotrou, to whom he had given the sum of € 15,000 to kill his father-in-law. Finally, Christopher Munsch, the shooter, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2010	Paris	Murder of Bernard Mazières	Murder of Bernard Mazières, a political journalist who had been retired for a year, by his adopted son and his friend Dany Manfoumbi on 24 December 2010.	His adopted son was sentenced to 13 years in prison for complicity. Dany Manfoumbi was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Murders of minors

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2001	Moselle	Murder of Karine Schaaff	Rape, murder and incineration of 16-year-old Karine Schaaff on 22 July 2001in Bitche by Stéphane Krauth with the help of his partner Péroline Garino.	Stéphane Krauth was sentenced to life imprisonment and a 22-year security period. His wife, Péroline Garino, was sentenced to three years in prison.
2003	Haut-Rhin	Murder of Sophia Abid	Murder of 7-year-old Sophia Abid, in Brunstatt on 10 March 2003, asphyxiated by her mother Tania Parnisari.	Tania Parnisari was sentenced on 25 March 2008 to 18 years in prison at Strasbourg.
2004	Loire-Atlantique	Murder of Jonathan Coulom	Kidnapping of 10-year-old Jonathan Coulom on 7 April 2004 in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins.	His body was found, tied up and weighted down with a concrete block in a pond in Guérande on 19 May 2004. Martin Ney, a German serial killer, confessed in April 2018 in prison to having kidnapped and killed the little boy.
2004	Bas-Rhin	Pierre Bodein	Kidnapping, robbery and murder, accompanied by acts of torture, of two girls aged 9 and 14 and a 38-year-old woman in June 2004 by Pierre Bodein.	"Pierrot the Madman." First prisoner in France to be sentenced to life imprisonment.
2008	Ain	Murder of Valentin Crémault	Murder of Valentin Crémault, 11year-old, on the night of 28–29 July 2008, in Lagnieu, by Stéphane Moitoiret.	In November 2013, his partner Noëlla Hégo was acquitted of the charge of complicity in murder and was interned in a psychiatric hospital during the verdict of the appeal trial.
2009	Nord	Typhaine case	Infanticide of Typhaine Taton, 5 years old, in Aulnoye-Aymeries on 11 June 2009 by his mother Anne-Sophie Faucheur and her companion, Nicolas Willot.
2009	Sarthe	Murder of Marina Sabatier	Infanticide of Marina Sabatier, 8 years old, in Écommoy on 6 August 2009 by his parents, Éric Sabatier and Virginie Darras.	Eric Sabatier died in prison four years after his trial. The French government condemned the ECHR for failing to protect children.
2010	Nord	Cottrez case	The bodies of eight newborn babies were found in a pavilion and a garden in the village of Villers-au-Tertre, killed by their mother Dominique Cottrez, a 45-year-old carer.
2010	Territoire de Belfort	Murder of Pierre Nasica	In 2010, Pierre Nasica, 15, was stabbed to death in Belfort by his best friend, Yacine Sid.	Yacine Sid was sentenced to 20 years in prison because he confessed.

Attacks / Mass killings

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2001	Indre-et-Loire	Tours massacre	Shooting committed by Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt which left four dead and seven injured on 29 October 2001 in Tours.	Jean-Pierre Roux-Durraffourt was sentenced to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years.
2002	Hauts-de-Seine	Nanterre massacre	Massacre that claimed the lives of eight people, committed by Richard Durn on 27 March 2002, at the end of a municipal council meeting at the town hall of Nanterre.	Richard Durn committed suicide before his trial on 28 March 2002. While detained he jumped who his death at a police station.
2002	Paris	Maxime Brunerie	Attempted assassination of French President Jacques Chiracc on 24 July 2002, during the military parade on the Champs-Élysées.	Maxime Brunerie was sentenced on 11 December 2004 at first instance to 10 years of criminal imprisonment without a security period by the Paris Assize Court . He was released after 7 years of detention on 3 August 2009.

Other crimes

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2001	Alpes-Maritimes	Affaire Smet	Alleged rape of a former hostess, Marie-Christine Vo, on a yacht in Cannes in April 2001 by the famous singer Jean-Philippe Smet, alias Johnny Hallyday.	He was questioned by the courts as an assisting witness; he was never charged, and on the advice of the prosecution, which considered that "nothing could be proven in this case".
2003 – 2006	Ardèche, Isère et Drôme	The Green Mouse Gang	Numerous bank robberies and cash-in-transit vehicle robberies were committed. The perpetrators were Laurent Cocogne and Serge Quemin.	or "washing gang", first called "mechanics gang". Laurent Cocogne shot himself dead during his arrest.
2003 – 2009	La Réunion	Juliano Verbard	Juliano Verbard, founder and guru of the religious group Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, considered a sect, was accused of sexual assault on minors, rape, kidnapping, hostage-taking, escape (by himself and followers of his sect). He escaped from the island by helicopter.	"Little Lily of Love"
2006	Hauts-de-Seine	Booba affair	The mother and brother of rapper Élie Yaffa were tied up and held captive by two individuals demanding €500,000 from him in Meudon on 13 February 2006.

2011–2020

Crimes

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2011	Loire-Atlantique	Tony Meilhon	On 19 January 2011, 18-year-old Laetitia Perrais was murdered by Tony Meilhon in La Bernerie-en-Retz.	Tony Meilhon is sentenced on 5 June 2013, to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court.
2011	Loire-Atlantique	Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance	On 6 April 2011, the quintuple murder of members of the Dupont de Ligonnès family at their home, in Nantes.	The father, Xavier, disappeared on 15 April in Roquebrune-sur-Argens and immediately became the prime suspect. Case unsolved as of 2025.
2011	Haut-Rhin	Jean Meyer murder	On 27 April 2011, a trainee air traffic controller, Karim Ouali, is suspected of having fatally attacked Jean Meyer, head of the control tower at Basel-Mulhouse International Airport.	Investigators strongly suspect an attack, either on the control tower or by maliciously diverting aircraft to the airport. The suspect has rebuilt his life in Singapore, married with children. China is refusing his extradition for geopolitical reasons.
2011	Meurthe-et-Moselle	Murder on the A31	On 19 July 2011, Xavier Baligant returned from vacation and headed for Belgium. He stopped at the Malvaux rest area where he was later found riddled with bullets.	Case unsolved as of 2025.
2011	Var	Murder of Colette Deromme	On 14 April 2011 murder of 50-year-old Colette Deromme, who was strangled by her ex-sister-in-law, Sylviane Fabre in Lorgues.	Sylviane Fabre was sentenced on 24 January 2014, to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Var Assize Court.
2011–2012	Essonne	Serial murders in Essonne	From 27 November 2011 to 5 April 2012 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, four motiveless murders committed by Yoni Palmier, an unemployed transient and ultraviolent character.	Yoni Palmier was sentenced on 16 April 2015 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Essonne Assize Court.
2011–2020	Vaucluse	Rapes of Gisèle Pelicot	Around fifty people were accused of raping Gisèle Pélicot, who was drugged without her knowledge by her husband, Dominique Pélicot, who was also implicated.	Dominique Pélicot was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2012	Loire	Murder of Philippe Gletty	On 27 February 2012 in La Terrasse-sur-Dorlay, Philippe Gletty was murdered by his accounting secretary and mistress, with one bullet in the back and two in the head.	Bettina Beau is sentenced on 23 May 2014 to 18 years of criminal imprisonment by the Loire Assizes.
2012–2013	Savoie	Ludivine Chambet	From September 2012 to November 2013 in Jacob-Bellecombette, Ludivine Chambet, a nursing assistant, poisoned ten elderly people in the EHPAD where she worked.	Ludivine Chambet was sentenced on 23 May 2017 to 25 years of criminal imprisonment by the Savoie Assize Court.
2012	Loiret	Jacqueline Sauvage case	On 10 September 2012, in La Selle-sur-le-Bied, Norbert Marot, 47, was murdered by his wife Jacqueline Sauvage at the family home. She killed him with three gunshots.	Victim of domestic violence, Jacqueline Sauvage is sentenced on 28 October 2014 to 10 years of criminal imprisonment by the Loiret Assize Court. She was pardoned by President François Hollande, and was released on 28 December 2016 after 4 years of detention.
2012	Isère	Murders of Kévin Noubissi and Sofiane Tadbirt	On 28 September 2012 in Échirolles, murders of Kévin Noubissi, aged 21, and Sofiane Tadbirt, aged 22, in a park in Échirolles.	On 23 December 2015, Ilyes Tafer and Youssef Camara were sentenced to 20 and 14 years of criminal imprisonment respectively by the Isère Assize Court.
2013	Loire-Atlantique	Barbot-Livet affair	On 15 March 2013, the murder of Anne Barbot née Blin, by her husband Didier and his mistress Stéphanie Livet in Vritz.	Didier Barbot was sentenced on 25 January 2016 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment, Stéphanie Livet to 25 years of criminal imprisonment by the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court.
2013	Pyrénées-Orientales	Disappearance of Allison and Marie-José Benitez	On 14 July 2013 in Perpignan , mysterious disappearance of 19-year-old Allison Benitez and her 55-year-old mother Marie-José.	Francisco Benitez, the husband and father and prime suspect, committed suicide on 5 August 2013.
2014	Alpes-Maritimes	Murder of Hélène Pastor	On 6 May 2014, murders of Hélène Pastor and her chauffer, who were shot dead outside a hospital in Nice by a two-man commando commanded by her son-in-law Wojciech Janowski.	Wojciech Janowski was sentenced on 17 October 2018 to life imprisonment, Samine Ahmed to life imprisonment, Al Hair Hamamdi to life imprisonment by the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court.
2014	Haute-Garonne	Murder of Laurent Baca	On 5 August 2014 in Toulouse, murder of Laurent Baca, a 36-year-old temporary worker, killed by his partner Édith Scaravetti, a 26-year-old home help.	Édith Scaravetti was sentenced on 17 May 2019 to 10 years of criminal imprisonment by the Tarn-et-Garonne Assize Court.
2014	Vosges	Murder of Laëtitia Delecluse	On 2 September 2014 in Ramonchamp, disappearance and murder of Laëtitia Delécluse, a 38-year-old, mother of two children, by her partner Daniel Rudenko.	Daniel Rudenko was sentenced on 24 June 2017 to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Vosges Assizes.
2016	Ain	Disappearance of Anne-Charlotte Poncin	On 5 January 2016, Anne-Charlotte Poncin disappeared in Ambérieu-en-Bugey. Her skull and the remains of her body were found on 19 February 2023.	Her ex-partner, Margaux Olivier, is the prime suspect. Indicted in 2022, she confessed to seeing Anne-Charlotte die, having committed suicide with medication, and allegedly threw her body into a river. She was nevertheless released in 2024 and remains under investigation. Suicide and homicide are believed as possible explanations.
2016	Saône-et-Loire	Valérie Bacot case	On 13 March 2016 in La Clayette, Valérie Bacot, a victim of domestic violence, shot her husband Daniel Polette in the back of the head.	Valérie Bacot was sentenced on 25 June 2021 to 4 years in prison, including 1 year in prison, by the Saône-et-Loire Assize Court.
2016	Seine-Saint-Denis	Chaolin Zhang case	On 7 August 2016 in Aubervilliers, 49-year-old Chinese fashion designer Chaolin Zhang died after being violently attacked by three youths.	On youth was sentenced on 19 June 2018 to 10 years of criminal imprisonment, and another was sentenced to 4 years in prison by the Seine-Saint-Denis Assize Court Seine-Saint-Denis.
2016	Doubs	Murder of Narumi Kurosaki	On 4 December 2016 in Besançon, the disappearance and presumed murder of Narumi Kurosaki, a 21-year-old Japanese student.	Chilean national Nicolas Zepeda was sentenced on 12 April 2022 to 28 years of criminal imprisonment by the Doubs Assize Court. In 2025, a retrial was ordered.
2017	Loire-Atlantique, Finistère	Troadec family murders	On 17 February 2017 in Orvault , the Troadec family was murdered at their home by relative Hubert Caouissin. The dismembered body parts of the four family members were found two weeks later.	Hubert Caouissin was sentenced on 7 July 2021 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court.
2017	Paris	Killing of Sarah Halimi	On 4 April 2017 in Paris, the anti-Semitic murder of Sarah Halimi who was stabbed in her home by Kobili Traoré and thrown from a balcony.	Kobili Traoré was declared criminally irresponsible by the Paris Assize Court on 19 December 2019.
2017	Haute-Saône	Murder of Alexia Daval	On 28 October 2017 in Gray-la-Ville, murder of Alexia Daval by strangulation by her husband during an argument.	Jonathan Daval was sentenced on 21 November 2020 to 25 years of criminal imprisonment by the Haute-Saône Assize Court.
2017	Ariège	Case of the "Mirepoix missing persons"	On 30 November 2017, Christophe Orsaz and his daughter Célia disappeared. He was beaten with an iron bar and then thrown alive into a septic tank, and his 18-year-old daughter was killed by a shotgun bullet to the head.	In 2023, the Foix Assize Court sentenced ex-partner Marie-José Montesinos and her lover Jean-Paul Vidal to 30 years in prison for killing the father and daughter, who had fallen into an ambush.
2018	Paris	Murder of Mireille Knoll	On 23 March 2018, in Paris, the anti Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll, who was stabbed in her home.	Yacine Mihoub was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year security period by the Paris Assize Court.
2018	Isère	Murder of Adrien Perez	On 29 July 2018 in Meylan, murder of Adrien Perez, killed with knives while he was helping a friend in the parking lot of a nightclub.	Yanis El Habib was sentenced on 21 June 2021 to 15 years of criminal imprisonment, Younès El Habib to 15 years of criminal imprisonment by the Isère Assize Court.
2018	Paris	Murder of Vanesa Campos	On 17 August 2018, in Paris, the murder of Vanesa Campos, a 36-year-old Peruvian undocumented transgender prostitute, after confronting a group of men armed with a revolver stolen from a police officer.	Mahmoud Kadri was sentenced on 30 January 2022 to 22 years of criminal imprisonment, Karim Ibrahim to 22 years of criminal imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court.
2018	Bas-Rhin	Murder of Sophie Le Tan	On 7 September 2018, Sophie Le Tan, a 20-year-old student, disappeared in Schiltigheim. Her dismembered body was found 13 months later in an Alsatian forest, in its skeletal state.	Jean-Marc Reiser was sentenced to life imprisonment with twenty-two years of security.
2018	Aude	Valérie Drif case	On 8 October 2018, Valérie Drif was murdered by her partner Laëtitia in Carcassonne. Firefighters intervened for a suicide by hanging, but the autopsy determined death by strangulation.	Laëtitia was then placed in pre-trial detention in the women's unit of the Perpignan remand center. She was then released from prison on 19 April 2019 and placed under judicial supervision but was not required to wear an electronic bracelet.
2019	Marne	Murder of Bastien Payet	On 10 March 2019 in Reims, murder of Bastien Payet, 23, former contesnetanr of Les Douze Coups de midi following a violent attack by three Reims students.	Investigation in progress.
2019	Landes	Murder of Johanna Blanes	On 7 July 2019 in Mont-de-Marsan, Johanna Blanes, 24, a mother of a 19-month-old child, was found dead in the Laspécès tunnel.	Hussein Ahmed was sentenced on 10 June 2022 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Landes Assizes.
2019	Oise	Roger Matassoli case	On 4 November 2019 in Agnetz, a priest, Roger Matassoli, was strangled and violently beaten by a young man whom he had sexually abused.	Alexandre V. was declared criminally irresponsible on 16 July 2021 by the Oise Assize Court.
2019	Aisne	Death of Elisa Pilarski	On 16 November 2019 in Villers-Cotterêts, 29-year-old Elisa Pilarski, six months pregnant, was found dead in the Retz forest with multiple dog bites.	Investigation in progress.
2020	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Philippe Monguillot case	On 5 July 2020 in Bayonne, murder of Philippe Monguillot, a bus driver who was beaten to death after acosting four passengers who boarded without a ticket or a face mask.	Wyssem Manai est condamné le 21 septembre 2023 à 15 ans de réclusion criminelle, Maxime Guyennon à 13 ans de réclusion criminelle par les assises des Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
2020	Rhone	Axelle Dorier case	During a late-night party at Parc des Hauteurs in Lyon, on the night of 18–19 July 2020, an altercation caused a driver to panic and run away, in conflict with partygoers, and he fled for 809.5 meters, dragging Axelle Dorier, 23, into his path, trapped under his bumper.

Murders of minors

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2011	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Murder of Alexandre Junca	On 4 June 2011 in Pau, murder of Alexandre Junca, a 13-year-old schoolboy by a stranger. His body dismembered by four accomplices.	Mickaël Baehrel is sentenced on 16 June 2016, to life imprisonment by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Assize Court.
2011	Gard	Affaire Océane	Le 6 novembre 2011 à Bellegarde, enlèvement, viol et meurtre d'Océane Luna, 8 ans, par Nicolas Blondiau.	Nicolas Blondiau est condamné le 17 février 2013, à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité incompressible par les assises du Gard.
2011	Haute-Loire	Affaire Agnès Marin	Le 16 novembre 2011 au Chambon-sur-Lignon, viol et meurtre d'Agnès Marin, 13 ans, par Mathieu Moulinas, 17 ans, récidiviste.	Mathieu Moulinas est condamné le 28 juin 2013, à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité par les assises de Haute-Loire.
2012	Seine-Maritime	Murder of Alexandre Castaldo	On 27 March 2012, 17-year-old Alexandre Castaldo was shot twice in the neck and incinerated in a forest by four high school friends in Beauvoir-en-Lyons.	Anthony S. was sentenced on 30 May 2013 to 20 years of criminal imprisonment, Yohan L. to 18, Cyril L. to 16, Kévin S. to 15 years by the Seine-Maritime Assize Court.
2013	Puy-de-Dôme	Murder of Fiona Chafoulais	On 12 May 2013 in Clermont-Ferrand, 5-year-old Fiona Bourgeon, was murdered by her mother Cécile Bourgeon and her partner, Berkane Makhlouf.	Berkane Makhlouf was sentenced on 26 November 2016 to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Puy-de-Dôme Assize Court, Cécile Bourgeon was acquitted on 20 February 2019 by the Court of Cassation.
2015	Pas-de-Calais	Murder of Chloé Ansel	On 15 April 2015 in Calais, 9-year-old Chloé Ansel was raped and murdered in a forest, by Zbigniew Huminski, a Polish worker.	Zbigniew Huminski, the perpetrator, committed suicide before his trial on 14 May 2017.
2017	Isère	Murder of Maëlys de Araujo	On 27 August 2017 in Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin, Maëlys de Araujo, 8 years old, was kidnapped during a wedding ceremony and then killed by Nordahl Lelandais.	Nordahl Lelandais was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year security term by the Isère Assize Court.
2018	Nord	Murder of Angelique Six	On 25 April 2018 in Wambrechies , kidnapping and sequestration, rape followed by murder of 13-year-old Angélique Six by David Ramault.	David Ramault was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 25-year security period by the Northern Assize Court.
2019	Oise	Murder of Shaïna Hansye	On 25 October 2019 in Creil , Shaïna Hansye, 15, already the victim of a gang rape in August 2017, was stabbed and burned alive by a 17-year-old boy with whom she was pregnant.	X was sentenced to 18 years of criminal imprisonment by the Oise juvenile court.

Attacks / Mass killings

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2012	Haute-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne	Toulouse and Montauban shootings	From 1 to 12 March 2012 in Toulouse and Montauban, a series of firearm attacks left seven dead and six injured.	Mohammed Merah, accused of the crime, was killed on 22 March 2012, by law enforcement before being convicted. His brother, Abdelkader, was sentenced on 18 April 2019, by the Paris Assize Court to 30 years of criminal imprisonment for criminal conspiracy, not for complicity in murder.
2012	Haute-Savoie	Tuerie de Chevaline	On 5 September 2012 in Chevaline , murder of three members of the same British family, a French cyclist is also shot dead.	Investigation ongoing. Case not solved as of 2025.
2013	Paris	2013 triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris	On 10 January 2013 in Paris, the assassinations of three female Kurdish activists Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Doğan et Leyla Söylemez by Omer Güney, an MIT agent.	Omer Güney, the perpetrator, died in prison before his trial.
2013	Hauts-de-Seine	2013 La Défense attack	On 25 May 2013 in Nanterre, a knife attack against a French soldier, Cédric Cordier, by Alexandre Dhaussy.	Alexandre Dhaussy, the perpetrator of the acts, is declared criminally irresponsible.
2013	Paris	November 2013 Paris attacks	From 15 to 18 November 2013, a gunman targeted a newspaper, a television station and a bank in Paris.	Abdelhakim Dekhar, known for the 1994 Rey-Maupin affair., was sentenced on 25 November 2017 to 25 years of criminal imprisonment with a security period of 16 years by the Paris Assize Court.
2014	Côte-d'Or	2014 Dijon attack	On 21 December 2014, in Dijon, a motorist deliberately drove his vehicle into the Christmas market, injuring thirteen people.	The perpetrator is declared not criminally responsible.
2014	Loire-Atlantique	2014 Nantes attack	On 22 December 2014 in Nantes, Sébastien Sarron, 38, deliberately drove into the Christmas market and killed a 25-year-old man.	Sébastien Sarron, the perpetrator of the events, committed suicide on 13 April 2016 before his trial.
2015	Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-et-Marne	January 2015 Île-de-France attacks	From 7 to 9 January 2015 in Paris, a series of terrorist attacks, seventeen people were killed by Amedy Coulibaly, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi.	Chérif Kouachi, Saïd Kouachi, Amedy Coulibaly, the perpetrators of the acts, were killed on 9 January 2015 by the police.
2015	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	Germanwings Flight 9525	On 24 March 2015, in Prads-Haute-Bléone, Andreas Lubitz, 27, co-pilot of an airliner, deliberately crashed his plane into a mountain range, causing the death of the 149 other people on board.	Andreas Lubitz died in the plane crash on 24 March 2015.
2015	Val-de-Marne	Sid Ahmed Ghlam case	On 19 April 2015 in Villejuif, Sid Ahmed Ghlam shot and killed 23-year-old Aurélie Chatelain, to steal her vehicle and subsequently commit terrorist attacks.	Sid Ahmed Ghlam was sentenced at first instance on 6 November 2020 to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years by the Paris Assize Court.
2015	Isère	2015 Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack	On 26 June 2015 in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Yassin Sahli beheaded his boss Hervé Cornara before attempting to blow up the factory where he worked.	Yassin Salhi, the perpetrator, committed suicide in prison before his trial on 22 December 2015.
2015	Pas-de-Calais	2015 Thalys train attack	Le 21 août 2015 à Oignies, Ayoub El Khazzani tente de perpétrer un attentat à bord d'un TGV reliant Amsterdam à Paris.	Ayoub El Khazzani est condamné le 17 décembre 2020 à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité assortie d'une période de sûreté de 22 ans par les assises de Paris.
2015	Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 en France	Le 13 novembre 2015 à Paris, série d'attaques terroristes faisant 130 morts et 354 blessés.	Bilal Hadfi, Ammar al Sabaawi, Mohammad Al Mahmod, Brahim Abdeslam, se suicident concomitamment à leur crime, Foued Mohamed-Aggad, Ismaël Omar Mostefaï et Samy Amimour sont tués par les forces de l'ordre le 14 novembre 2015, Chakib Akrouh et Abdelhamid Abaaoud sont tués par les forces de l'ordre le 18 novembre 2015. Salah Abdeslam est condamné à la perpétuité incompressible le 29 June 2022.
2016	Yvelines	Double assassinat du 13 juin 2016 à Magnanville	Le 13 juin 2016 à Magnanville, assassinat d'un couple de fonctionnaires de police. Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42 ans, et Jessica Schneider, 36 ans, sont égorgés par Larossi Abballa à leur domicile, devant leur fils en bas âge.	Larossi Abballa est tué par les forces de l'ordre le 14 juin 2016.
2016	Alpes-Maritimes	Attentat du 14 juillet 2016 à Nice	Le 14 juillet 2016 à Nice, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel use un camion-bélier sur la promenade des Anglais tuant 86 personnes et faisant 458 blessés.	Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, l'auteur des faits, est tué par les forces de l'ordre le 14 juillet 2016.
2016	Seine-Maritime	Attentat de l'église de Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray	Le 26 juillet 2016 à Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, le père Jacques Hamel, 86 ans, est égorgé dans son église. Un autre paroissien est blessé.	Adel Kermiche et Abdel Malik Petitjean sont abattus par les forces de l'ordre.
2016	Paris	Projet d'attentat de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris	Le 4 septembre 2016 à Paris, tentative d'attentat à la voiture piégée contre la Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris par un commando de djihadistes.	Inès Madani est condamnée en première instance le 14 octobre 2019, à 30 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté, Ornella Gilligmann à 25 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté, Sarah Hervouët à 20 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté, Amel Sakaou à 20 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté par les assises de Paris.
2017	Paris	Attaque contre des militaires au Carrousel du Louvre	Le 3 février 2017 à Paris, attaque à la machette contre des militaires, l'un d'eux est blessé.	Abdallah El-Hamahmy est condamné le 21 juin 2021 à 30 ans de réclusion criminelle assortie d'une période de sûreté de 20 ans par les assises de Paris.
2017	Paris	Colis piégé contre le FMI à Paris	Le 16 mars 2017 à Paris, un colis piégé explose au bâtiment du Fonds monétaire international, une personne est blessée.	Enquête en cours.
2017	Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne	Attaque du 18 mars 2017 à Orly	Le 18 mars 2017 à Orly, prise en otage une militaire par Zyed Belgacem avant d'être abattu. L'individu avait blessé par balle un policier quelques heures plus tôt lors d'un contrôle routier.	Zyed Belgacem, auteur des faits est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2017	Paris	Attentat sur l'avenue des Champs-Élysées du 20 avril 2017	Le 20 avril 2017 à Paris, un fonctionnaire de police est tué par balles sur l'avenue des Champs-Élysées.	Karim Cheurfi, auteur des faits est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2017	Hauts-de-Seine	Attaque contre des militaires à Levallois-Perret	Le 9 août 2017 à Levallois-Perret, cinq militaires sont blessés lors d'une attaque à la voiture bélier perpétré par Hamou Benlatrèche.	Hamou Benlatrèche est condamné le 13 décembre 2021 à 30 ans de réclusion criminelle assortie d'une période de sûreté de 20 ans par les assises de Paris.
2017	Bouches-du-Rhône	Attaque par arme blanche à la gare Saint-Charles de Marseille	Le 1 octobre 2017 à Marseille, un terroriste tue deux jeunes femmes (une égorgée, une éventrée) sur le parvis de la gare Saint-Charles avant d'être abattu par des militaires.	Ahmed Hanachi est abattu par les forces de l'ordre.
2018	Aude	Attaques de Carcassonne et Trèbes	Le 23 mars 2018 à Carcassonne et Trèbes une série d'attaques terroristes fait quatre morts et quinze blessés.	Radouane Lakdim est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2018	Paris	Attentat du 12 mai 2018	Le 12 mai 2018 à Paris, Khamzat Azimov tue un passant de 29 ans, Ronan Gosnet, quatre autres sont blessés.	Khamzat Azimov est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2018	Bas-Rhin	Attentat du marché de Noël de Strasbourg	Le 11 décembre 2018 à Strasbourg, une attaque à l'arme à feux fait quatre morts et douze blessés sur le marché de Noël.	Chériff Chekatt, est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2019	Paris	Incendie de la rue Erlanger	Le 4 février 2019 à Paris, un incendie déclenché criminellement fait dix morts et quatre-vingt-seize blessés.	Essia Boularès est condamnée le 23 février 2023 à 25 ans de réclusion criminelle.
2019	Orne	Attentat de la prison de Condé-sur-Sarthe	Le 5 mars 2019 à Condé-sur-Sarthe, un détenu radicalisé, Michaël Chiolo, et sa compagne en visite, prennent en otage des surveillants pénitentiaires.	Hanane Aboulhana est tuée par les forces de l'ordre.
2019	Rhône	Attentat de la rue Victor-Hugo de Lyon	Le 24 mai 2019 à Lyon, une attaque à la bombe fait 14 blessés dans une rue passante.
2019	Paris	Attentat de la préfecture de police de Paris	Le 3 octobre 2019 à Paris, un agent de police radicalisé tue quatre de ses collègues à l'arme blanche avant d'être abattu.	Michael Harpon est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2019	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Attentat à la mosquée de Bayonne	Le 28 octobre 2019 à Bayonne, un retraité de 84 ans, tente de commettre un attentat à la bombe contre une mosquée.	Claude Sinké, auteur des faits meurt en prison avant son procès le 26 février 2020.
2020	Val-de-Marne	Attentat du 3 janvier 2020 à Villejuif	Le 3 janvier 2020 à Villejuif, un homme attaque au couteau des promeneurs dans un parc, faisant un mort et deux blessés.	Nathan Chiason est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2020	Drôme	Attaque du 4 avril 2020 à Romans-sur-Isère	Le 4 avril 2020 à Romans-sur-Isère, un migrant soudanais attaque des passants dans la rue, il fait deux morts et cinq blessés.
2020	Hauts-de-Seine	2020 Colombes attack	Le 27 avril 2020 à Colombes, un homme radicalisé percute volontairement deux motards de la Police Nationale, les blessant grièvement.
2020	Paris	Attaque du 25 septembre 2020 à Paris	Le 25 septembre 2020 à Paris, un migrant pakistanais tente de tuer au couteau deux journalistes devant les locaux de Charlie-Hebdo.
2020	Yvelines	Assassinat de Samuel Paty	Le 16 octobre 2020 à Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, un professeur de collège, Samuel Paty, est décapité par un terroriste islamiste pour avoir montré des caricatures de Mahomet de Charlie Hebdo dans le cadre d'un cours d'EMC portant sur la liberté d'expression.	L'auteur des faits, Abdoullakh Anzorov, est aussitôt abattu par les forces de l'ordre.
2020	Alpes-Maritimes	Attentat de la basilique Notre-Dame de Nice	Le 29 octobre 2020 à Nice, un homme tue trois fidèles au couteau lors de l'attaque de la basilique.

Lynchings / Brawls / Police blunders

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2013	Paris	Affaire Clément Méric	Mort, au cours d'une rixe, d'un jeune militant d'extrême gauche, Clément Méric, le 5 juin 2013.	Esteban Morillo est condamné en première instance le 14 septembre 2018 à 11 ans de prison ferme, Samuel Dufour à 7 ans de prison ferme par les assises de Paris.
2014	Tarn	Mort de Rémi Fraisse	Mort de Rémi Fraisse, un militant écologiste de 21 ans, après qu'une grenade OF F1 s'est coincée entre sa veste et son sac à dos lors de violents affrontements à Lisle-sur-Tarn.	La justice ordonne un non-lieu.
2015	Ille-et-Vilaine	Affaire Babacar Gueye	Babacar Gueye est abattu par un policier dans la nuit du 2 au 3 décembre 2015 à Rennes.	La justice ordonne un non-lieu.
2016	Val-d'Oise	Affaire Adama Traoré	Mort suspecte d'Adama Traoré, le 16 juillet 2016, à la suite d'une interpellation. Il décède à la gendarmerie de Persan. Sa mort prend une ampleur médiatique à la suite de la médiatisation de bavures policières en France et à l'étranger.	Instruction en cours.
2017	Paris	Mort de Liu Shaoyao	Liu Shaoyao est abattu par la police lors d'une intervention à son domicile.	La justice ordonne un non-lieu.
2017	Loir-et-Cher	Mort d'Angelo Garand	Angelo Garand est un homme de la communauté du voyage abattu à 37 ans par le GIGN au domicile de ses parents à Seur.	La justice ordonne un non-lieu.
2018	Bouches-du-Rhône	Affaire Zineb Redouane	Mort de Zineb Redouane, 80 ans, après avoir reçu une grenade lacrymogène à sa fenêtre provenant d'un policier lors d'une manifestation du gilets jaunes à Marseille, le 2 décembre 2018.	Instruction en cours.
2019	Loire-Atlantique	Affaire Steve Maia Caniço	Mort par noyade de Steve Maia Caniço, 24 ans, après une intervention de la police provoquant un vent de panique lors de la célébration de la fête de la musique sur le quai Président-Wilson à Nantes. Son corps est retrouvé dans la Loire un mois plus tard.	Instruction en cours.
2020	Paris	Affaire Cédric Chouviat	Mort de Cédric Chouviat, plaqué au sol par des policiers sur le quai Branly, le 3 janvier 2020.	Instruction en cours.
2020	Paris	Affaire Michel Zecler	Michel Zecler, producteur de rap, est victime d'une violente agression et d'injures racistes de la part de policiers dans son studio, le 21 novembre 2020. Cette altercation a connu un large impact médiatique en France grâce notamment à la diffusion d'images de caméra de surveillance.	Instruction en cours.

Other crimes

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2011	Calvados	Affaire Mathis	Disparition de Mathis Jouanneau, huit ans, le 4 septembre 2011. Son père est le principal suspect de l'enlèvement.	Enquête en cours ; affaire non élucidée en 2025.
2011	Morbihan	Affaire Lionel Floury	Lionel Floury est victime de quatre tentatives d'assassinat commanditées par sa femme Murielle Floury née Couret. Avec la complicité de son amant Patrick Pluot, elle a utilisé comme homme de main Jean-Sébastien Thomas, le petit ami de sa fille.	Murielle Couret est condamnée le 13 mai 2014 en première instance à 20 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté par les assises du Morbihan.
2012–2013	Bouches-du-Rhône	Affaire Gomis	Série de viols, de tentatives de viol et agressions sexuelles fin décembre 2012 à Marseille.	Yoan Gomis est condamné en première instance le 10 septembre 2015 à 12 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté par les assises des Bouches-du-Rhône.
2014	Hauts-de-Seine	Affaire Nabilla	La vedette de télé-réalité Nabilla Benattia assène à son compagnon Thomas Vergara un coup de couteau dans le thorax le 7 novembre 2014 à Boulogne-Billancourt. Ce dernier ne porte pas plainte.	Nabilla Benattia est condamnée en première instance le 19 mai 2016 à 2 ans de prison dont 6 mois ferme par le tribunal correctionnel de Nanterre.
2015	Gard	Affaire Lucas Tronche	Disparition de Lucas Tronche, 15 ans, le 18 mars 2015 à Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Plusieurs pistes sont étudiées par les enquêteurs.	Affaire résolue le 8 juillet 2021. Il s'agit d'une chute accidentelle.
2015	Ain	Affaire Turan Bekar	Tentative d'assassinat de Turan Bekar par son épouse Ayten Yalcin.	Ayten Yalcin est condamnée en première instance le 28 juin 2019 à 18 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté, son frère Engin Yalcin est condamné à 16 ans de réclusion criminelle sans période de sûreté par les assises de l'Ain.
2016–2022	Seine-Saint-Denis, Maroc	Affaire Bouthier.	En mai 2022, Jacques Bouthier, le PDG d'Assu 2000, est mis en examen pour « traite d'êtres humains » et « viols sur mineure ».
2016	Gard	Affaire Antoine Zoia	Disparition d'Antoine Zoia, 16 ans, le 1 mars 2016. Son corps est retrouvé pendu à un arbre dans un massif forestier de Clarensac le 27 septembre 2018.	Enquête en cours ; affaire non élucidée en 2025.
2020	Paris	Affaire French Bukkake	Différents responsables de la plateforme de vidéos pornographiques sont mis en examen pour « traite d'êtres humains aggravée, viols en réunion » et « proxénétisme aggravé ».
2020	Tarn	Affaire Delphine Jubillar	Disparition de Delphine Jubillar, mère de famille de 33 ans, dans la nuit du 15 au 16 décembre 2020 à Cagnac-les-Mines.	Mari incarcéré ; enquête en cours, affaire non élucidée en 2025.

2021 – 2030

Murders

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2021	Gironde	Affaire Chahinez Daoud	Le 4 mai 2021, à Mérignac, Chahinez Daoud, 31 ans, est victime d'une agression au fusil puis immolée par son mari.
2022	Corrèze	Affaire Justine Vayrac	Le 23 octobre 2022 à Brive, Justine Vayrac, jeune maman de 20 ans a été tuée dans la nuit du 22 au 23 octobre alors qu'elle sortait d'une discothèque de Brive.	Lucas Larivée, le principal suspect, avoue l'avoir tuée. Cet agriculteur de 21 ans a été mis en examen pour enlèvement, viol et meurtre aggravé.
2022	Bouches-du-Rhône	Affaire Yvan Colonna	Le 2 mars 2022 à Arles, Franck Elong Abé, détenu de la maison centrale d'Arles, agresse mortellement Yvan Colonna, détenu condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité.
2022	Deux-Sèvres et Vendée	Meurtres de Leslie Hoorelbeke et Kévin Trompat	Leslie Hoorelbeke et Kévin Trompat disparaissent dans la nuit du 25 novembre au 26 novembre 2022 à Prahecq. Après leur enlèvement et leur séquestration, leurs corps sont retrouvés début mars 2023 à Puyravault (Charente-Maritime). L'autopsie révèle que leur mort a probablement été provoquée par des coups portés avec un objet contondant.	Cinq suspects ont été placés en garde à vue, puis en détention provisoire : Tom Trouillet, Nathan Badji, Enzo Challat, Stevan Mathieu et Mickael Zadi.
2023	Finistère	Affaire Héléna Cluyou	Le 29 janvier 2023 à Brest, Héléna Cluyou, 20 ans, élève infirmière, est retrouvée morte et en partie calcinée.	Sylvain Legrand, 36 ans principal suspect meurt à l'hôpital le jeudi 9 février 2023. La semaine précédente, il avait tenté de mettre fin à ses jours à deux reprises, après avoir confié à des proches "avoir commis une bêtise, que sa vie était finie" et que "c'était un accident".
2023	Pyrénées-Atlantiques	Affaire Agnès Lassalle	Le 22 février 2023 à Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Agnès Lassalle, professeure d'espagnol de 53 ans, a été poignardée en plein cours par l'un de ses élèves de seconde, âgé de 16 ans.	L'élève de 16 ans au lycée Saint-Thomas d'Aquin à Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a reconnu les faits et a été placé en détention. Aurait fait part d'une « petite voix qui lui parle et lui aurait suggéré la veille de commettre un assassinat »
2023	Marne	Affaire Carène Mezino	Le 22 mai 2023 à Reims, Carène Mezino, infirmière de 37 ans est assassinée dans l'exercice de ses fonctions au CHU de Reims	Franck Freyburger, 59 ans, diagnostiqué « schizophrène paranoïde » est poursuivi pour l'assassinat.
2023	Gard	Affaire Sihem Belouahmia	Sihem Belouahmia, lycéenne de 18 ans, disparait le 25 janvier 2023 près d'Alès, dans le Gard. Elle est retrouvée morte le jeudi 2 février, dans un chemin forestier, non-loin du lieu de sa disparition.	Mahfoud H. est placé en garde à vue. Il avoue l'avoir tué dans le cadre d'une dispute de leur relation amoureuse.
2024	Paris	Affaire Philippine	Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, étudiante de 19 ans, est tuée le 20 septembre 2024 au bois de Boulogne par Taha Oualidat.	Le suspect, Taha Oualidat est un marocain sous OQTF. Il est arrêté en Suisse le 21 septembre 2024 et est en cours d'extradition pour une éventuelle mise en examen pour viol suivi de meurtre. L'affaire suscite de nombreuses réactions médiatiques et politiques, notamment avec le questionnement sur le suivi des personnes condamnées pour viol, l'éloignement des personnes faisant l'objet d'une OQTF, les critères juridiques permettant au juge de prolonger la rétention administrative d'un étranger en situation irrégulière et la « double peine ».
2025	Nogent (Haute-Marne)	Affaire Mélanie	Mélanie G., surveillante de 31 ans au collège Françoise-Dolto, est tuée le 10 juin 2025 par Quentin G., un élève de 14 ans. L’agression se produit vers 8 h lors d’un contrôle des sacs, en présence de gendarmes, dans le cadre du plan de sécurisation des établissements scolaires.	L’auteur présumé, Quentin G., élève de 3e, n’était pas connu des services de police. Il avait été deux fois exclu pour indiscipline, bien qu’il ait aussi été référent contre le harcèlement. Il poignarde Mélanie G. à plusieurs reprises avec un couteau. L’affaire suscite une onde de choc dans le monde éducatif, et entraîne des réactions politiques, notamment sur la banalisation des armes blanches en milieu scolaire. Le président Emmanuel Macron, le Premier ministre François Bayrou, ainsi que plusieurs syndicats enseignants expriment leur émotion et leur colère. Une enquête pour homicide volontaire est en cours.

Murders of minors

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2021	Val-d'Oise	Murder of Alisha Khalid	Assassination of Alisha Khalid by two of her schoolmates in Argenteuil.	Thirteen years in prison for his murderer, ten years for his accomplices
2022	Paris	Affaire Lola	On 14 October 2022, 12-year-old Lola Daviet disappeared in Paris. Her body was found in a trunk. The girl was killed by Dahbia Benkired.	Dahbia Benkired, a 24-year-old homeless Algerian national, subject to an OQTF, is charged with "murder linked to the rape of a 15-year-old minor, rape of a 15-year-old minor with acts of torture and barbarity and concealment of a corpse" and imprisoned . The case triggered strong political reactions due to the murderer's OQTF.
2022	Lot-et-Garonne	Affaire Vanesa	Le 18 Novembre 2022, Vanesa, 14 ans, est enlevée, violée et tuée alors qu'elle rentrait chez elle après son cours d'EPS au collège à Tonneins.	Le principal suspect Romain Chevrel, 31 ans, arrêté, reconnait immédiatement être l'auteur du viol et est mis en examen pour "enlèvement, séquestration, viol et meurtre sur mineure" et incarcéré. L'affaire s'est propagée jusqu'en Espagne, au Pérou et en Colombie, où vivent des proches de ses parents.
2023	Drôme	Mort de Thomas	Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 novembre 2023, Thomas Perotto, 16 ans, décède après avoir été frappé à deux reprises à l'arme blanche. Deux autres victimes, de 23 et 28 ans, sont placées en urgence absolue. Les agresseurs ont blessé une dizaine de personnes au total.	L'affaire a suscité beaucoup d'émotion dans la classe politique.
2023	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence	Mort d'Émile	Le 8 juillet 2023 au Haut-Vernet, Émile disparait alors qu'il jouait dans le jardin de ses grands-parents. Le 30 mars 2024, son crâne et quelques ossements sont retrouvés par une randonneuse non-loin du hameau d'où il vivait.	Enquête en cours ; affaire non élucidée en 2025.
2023	Bas-Rhin	Meurtre de Lina Delsarte	Le 23 septembre 2023, Lina Delsarte, 15 ans, disparaît alors qu'elle effectue le chemin entre son domicile à Champenay et la gare de Saint-Blaise-la-Roche ,où elle devait prendre un train pour rejoindre son compagnon. Son corps est retrouvé le 16 octobre 2024 est retrouvé dans une zone boisée et isolée à Sermoise-sur-Loire, dans la Nièvre.	Enquête en cours ; affaire non élucidée en 2025. Le principal suspect, Samuel Gonin, se suicide par pendaison le 10 juillet 2024 à Besançon.
2024	Seine-Maritime	Meurtre de Celya	Le 12 juillet 2024, Julien G., toxicomane de 42 ans, agresse sa belle-fille de 6 ans et la "claque au sol". La mère s'interpose et est victime de neufs coups de couteau. Le suspect enlève Celya, une Alerte enlèvement est déclenchée. Le corps de l'enfant est retrouvé le lendemain vers 6 h, à proximité du véhicule du suspect qui est arrêté. Le meurtre de Celya a été d'une extrême violence, avec un « fracas majeur à l’arrière du crâne ».	Instruction en cours.
2025	Essonne	Meurtre de Louise	Le 7 février 2025, Louise Lassalle, une collégienne de 11 ans, disparaît à Épinay-sur-Orge alors qu’elle rentre de l’école. Son corps est retrouvé le lendemain matin dans le bois des Templiers, près de son domicile. Owen L., un voisin de 23 ans, est rapidement identifié comme principal suspect. Connu pour des antécédents de violence, notamment envers sa sœur, il avoue le meurtre, déclarant avoir agi sous l’emprise de la colère après une défaite au jeu vidéo en ligne Fortnite. L’affaire suscite une vive émotion en France et relance le débat sur l’influence des jeux vidéo violents et la sécurité des enfants.	’‘En attente de jugement.’’

Attentats / Tueries de masse

Year	Department	Case	Summary	Convictions and comments
2021	Yvelines	Attaque de Rambouillet	Le 23 avril, à Rambouillet, Stéphanie Monfermé, 49 ans, policière, est égorgée par Jamel Gorchene, 36 ans, ressortissant tunisien régularisé en 2019, aux cris d'« Allah akbar ».	Jamel Gorchene, auteur des faits est tué par les forces de l'ordre.
2022	Paris	Fusillade du 23 décembre 2022 à Paris	Le 23 décembre, dans le 10e arrondissement de Paris, une fusillade visant les Kurdes fait 3 morts dont la militante Emine Kara et 4 blessés.	William Mallet, 69 ans, a été mis en examen pour assassinat, homicides volontaires, violences aggravées et infractions à la législation sur les armes. Il dit avoir agi par racisme.
2023	Arras (Pas-de-Calais)	Assassinat de Dominique Bernard	Un ancien élève du lycée Gambetta-Carnot d’Arras âgé de 20 ans, fiché S pour radicalisation, s'introduit dans l'établissement avec un couteau, et poignarde mortellement un professeur, et en blesse un autre ainsi que deux agents d'entretien. Il est arrêté par les forces de l'ordre. L'assaillant prête allégeance au groupe terroriste Etat islamique	Le PNAT s'est saisi et a ouvert une enquête
2023	Paris	Attentat du pont de Bir-Hakeim	Un homme armé d'un couteau et d'un marteau a attaqué un groupe de touristes et tué un Allemand avant de s'enfuir et de s'attaquer à d'autres personnes et de blesser deux d'entre eux. L'assaillant a ensuite été arrêté par la police grâce à un tir de pistolet à impulsions électriques.
2024	Espinasse-Vozelle (Allier)	Tuerie de masse dans l'Allier	Le 13 juillet, un homme a ouvert le feu lors d’une fête d’anniversaire tuant trois personnes et faisant 4 blessés en urgence absolue, avant de se suicider. L'auteur est un ancien militaire, qui vivait reclus.
2024	Dunkerque	Fusillades de Dunkerque du 14 décembre 2024	Paul Domis, 22 ans, commet une tuerie à la chaîne le 14 décembre 2024 : il tue son ancien patron à Wormhout, puis deux anciens collègues, à Loon-Plage ainsi que migrants kurdes iraniens de 20 et 28 ans. Le tueur reprend la route et se rend à la gendarmerie de Ghyvelde.	Mis en examen pour assassinats et meurtres.
2025	Nantes	Tuerie dans un lycée de Nantes	Le 25 avril, un lycéen de 16 ans, attaque au couteau des élèves en classe, tuant une lycéenne, et blessant 3 autres lycéens dont un grièvement. Il est neutralisé par un employé du lycée, puis interpellé. Il a un profil solitaire, dépressif et suicidaire. Il a rédigé un manifeste avant son passage à l'acte, dénonçant de façon confuse écocide et aliénation de la société. Il serait également adorateur d'Hitler et des nazis.	Le suspect est interné en psychiatrie.
2025	La Grand-Combe (Gard)	Meurtre d’Aboubakar Cissé	Le 25 avril, un individu de 20 ans, rentre dans une mosquée, puis après quelques minutes poignarde mortellement un fidèle de 40 à 50 coups de couteau. La victime est Aboubakar Cissé, un jeune malien d'une vingtaine d'année, bénévole dans le lieu de culte. L'assaillant film en direct l'agonie de sa victime et profère des insultes islamophobes. Le parquet envisage un crime raciste et islamophobe. Le PNAT est en observation mais ne s'est pas saisi, toutefois le Conseil français du culte musulman dénonce un "attentat terroriste anti-musulman".	Le suspect s'est rendu à la police.
2025	Puget-sur-Argens (Var)	Meurtre d’Hichem Miraoui	Le 31 mai, un homme de 45 ans, d’origine tunisienne, est abattu par balles sur le parvis d’un salon de coiffure à Puget‑sur‑Argens. Le tireur, âgé de 53 ans, était connu pour ses propos racistes et menaçants sur les réseaux sociaux. Il relayait régulièrement des publications de figures du Rassemblement national comme Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella ou David Rachline, et appelait à voter pour le RN afin de « virer les immigrés ». Il est mis en examen pour assassinat en raison de l’origine ou de la religion, et pour tentative d’assassinat, l’affaire étant désormais instruite par le PNAT.

Other crimes

Year	Department(s)	Affair	Summary	Condemnations and comments
2021	Paris	Affaire Yuriy	On 15 January, in Paris , a 14-year-old boy, Yuriy, was violently beaten by around ten individuals.	Thirteen people sent for criminal trial.
2022	Creuse	Robert Hendy-Freegard case	On 26 August, in Vidaillat , two gendarmes were injured when Robert Hendy-Freegard , a British national convicted of deception , refused to comply .
2023	Haute-Savoie	2023 Annecy stabbing	On 8 June, in Annecy, an individual stabbed six people, including four young children, in and around a playground .	Following his police custody, Abdelmasih Hannoun was charged with attempted murder.
2001 to 2021	Paris and Hérault	Olivier Vidal case	Between 2001 and 2021 , Olivier Vidal was found guilty of aggravated rape of three young boys, sexual assault of five others, and corruption of minors involving twelve complainants. The events took place in Montpellier and Paris . During this period, he participated in film workshops with teenagers , spoke at summer camps , and introduced himself to Jewish and then evangelical families , as well as the entourage of young film enthusiasts.	Sentenced in April 2025. 16 years in prison, 7 years of socio-judicial monitoring, with 5 more years to be served, in the event of misconduct, and a permanent ban on any activity with minors, whether professional or voluntary  .

Bibliography

• Armand Fouquier, Causes célèbres de tous les peuples, Paris, Lebrun, 1858–1867. Livraisons 1–25, p. mult. Livraisons 26–50, p. mult. Livraisons 51–75, p. mult. Livraisons 76–100, p. mult. Livraisons 101–114, p. mult. Livraisons 115–139, p. mult. Affaires Armand et La Pommerais (« Les procès du jour », 1864), et de Épisode des journées de juin 1848 à l'affaire Castaing (No. 249), p. mult. En ligne sur Gallica.

See also

• List of major crimes in Ireland
• List of major crimes in Singapore (2020–present)
• List of major crimes in the United Kingdom