FRANCE: GRIEVING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN NANTERRE VISIT SCENE OF KILLING SPREE WHERE 8 PEOPLE DIED AFTER A GUNMEN OPENED FIRE ON A TOWN COUNCIL MEETING

Record ID: 648767

  • Title: FRANCE: GRIEVING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN NANTERRE VISIT SCENE OF KILLING SPREE WHERE 8 PEOPLE DIED AFTER A GUNMEN OPENED FIRE ON A TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
  • Date: 27th March 2002
  • Summary: (U4) NANTERRE, FRANCE (27 MARCH 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SCU/WS: FRENCH FLAG AT HALF MAST OVER CITY HALL/ AMBULANCES OUTSIDE CITY HALL (2 SHOTS) 0.11 2. SV: FAMILIES ASSISTED BY SUPPORT WORKERS 0.19 3. SV: FAMILIES INSIDE CITY HALL 0.23 4. VARIOUS OF GRIEVING RELATIVES (4 SHOTS) 0.42 5. VARIOUS OF GRIEVING RELATIVES AND SUPPORT WORKERS OUTSIDE (6 SHOTS) 1.14 6. SV/SCU: FAMILIES LOOKING AT PICTURES OF THE NANTERRE CITY HALL COUNCIL MEMBERS ON MAGAZINE (2 SHOTS) 1.23 7. TWO CLOSE UP PICTURES OF COUNCIL MEMBERS KILLED IN SHOOTING 1.34 8. VARIOUS MORE OF GRIEVING RELATIVES AND MEDIA OUTSIDE BUILDING ENTRANCE (3 SHOTS) 1.50 (U4)PARIS, FRANCE (27 MARCH 2002) (REUTERS) 9. WS: EXTERIOR OF MATIGNON PALACE 1.54 10. WIDE OF JOURNALISTS OUTSIDE MATIGNON PALACE 1.56 11. MV: PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN LEAVING BUILDING WITH FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER HUBERT VEDRINE 1.59 12. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) PRIME MINISTER LIONEL JOSPIN SAYING "The President and myself have instructed the Interior Minister to talk about what happened and explain the information we have so far." 2.11 13. SV: MINISTERS COMING OUT OF MATIGNON PALACE 2.17 14. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) INTERIOR MINISTER DANIEL VAILLANT SAYING: "We want to express our horror at what we saw on arriving at the scene around 2:30 this morning: the cold, the pain, the compassion. We want to wish the wounded a full recovery. We think of the families and try to support them like the City Hall is doing now. We also want to pay tribute to the support operation that was launched. Everyone involved did a terrific job during the red emergency process. We also want to salute the strength and stamina of the council members, who managed to subdue the shooter. Those are the elements transmitted to the ministers during our meeting." 3.02 15. SLV: JOURNALISTS OUTSIDE MATIGNON PALACE 3.05 (U4)NANTERRE, PARIS (27 MARCH 2002) (REUTERS) 16. SV: POLICE OUTSIDE CITY HALL 3.07 17. SCU: BUNCH OF FLOWERS OUTSIDE CITY HALL ENTRANCE 3.10 18. MV; NANTERRE MAYOR JACQUELINE FRAYSSE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL YVES BOT AT PRESS CONFERENCE 3.13 19. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) ATTORNEY GENERAL YVES BOT SAYING: "The shooter carried three weapons: a revolver and two automatic pistols with seven chargers. He apparently only used the automatic weapons to shoot at the members of the council. He acted with sheer determination and in a methodic fashion." 3.50 20. WS: JOURNALISTS LEAVING PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM 3.53 21. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (French) SCHOOL BOY SAYING: "He was always alone in the courtyard, he never talked to anyone. Sometimes we tried to talk to him, but he was always nervous then he always punished us." 4.10 22. SLV OF BUILDING 4.13 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th April 2002 13:00
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  • Location: NANTERRE AND PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA3M0UTVL1RBHW2KJIE4295Z599
  • Story Text: Grieving friends and relatives in Nanterre have
    visiting the scene of Wednesday's killing spree in which 8
    people died and 30 were injured when a gunman opened fire on
    town council meeting.


    Shocked relatives assisted by emergency workers milled
    around the City Hall on Wednesday (March 27, 2002) trying to
    attach some reason to what both President Jaques Chirac and Prime
    mInister Lionel Jospin described as "an act of lunacy".

    Police said they had arrested 33-year-old Rchard Durn, who
    calmly sprayed bullets at some 40 people at the council
    meeting in the suburb of Nanterre. His motive remained
    unclear.

    President Jacques Chirac and challenger Prime Minister
    Lionel Jospin raced to the scene, both denouncing the massacre
    as an act of madness. Jospin once again expressed his outrage
    at the end of a ministers' council in Paris, and said the
    issue had been discussed with the President during the
    meeting.

    Daniel Vaillant, the interior minister, praised the work
    carried out by the emergency workers called up to the scene
    once the emergency plan was launched, and expressed the
    government's hopes that the wounded would survive their
    traumatic ordeal.

    At a press conference in Nanterre, the country's attorney
    general Yves Bot told journalists the attacker had sprayed the
    council members with gunfire from two automatic pistols that
    had been carrying.

    School boys from a Nanterre school where Richard Durn
    worked as a student monitor during breaks, described him as a
    loner, who never wanted to talk to them and who often punished
    them for small things.
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