When the Nanterre massacre disrupted the 2002 electoral campaign

He is "

", notes the Quai des Orfèvres about the author of the appalling massacre perpetrated at the town hall of Nanterre a few hours earlier. .

On the night of March 26 to 27, 2002, Richard Durn, a 33-year-old Frenchman of Yugoslav origin, killed eight people in cold blood, two deputy mayors and six municipal councillors, and injured nineteen others.

It is indeed the "

" that

offers its readers on March 28 under the pen of Christophe Cornevin, or how an ordinary meeting of a municipal council ends in a bloodbath.

The same day, insecurity invites itself into the electoral campaign.

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The front page of Le Figaro on March 28, 2002. Le Figaro

It all begins on March 26 at 7 p.m., when Richard Durn enters the city council chambers without being searched.

And it's unfortunate because under his green jacket, "

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