1995 Vercors massacre
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1995-vercors-massacre-207-17682503
title:
1995 Vercors massacre
text:
On the morning of 16 December 1995, 16 members of the cult the Order of the Solar Temple died in a mass murder-suicide in a clearing in the Vercors, near the village of Saint-Pierre-de-Chérennes in Isère, France. Two members of the group, Jean-Pierre Lardanchet and André Friedli, shot and killed 14 other members of the cult, including three children, before setting the bodies on fire and killing themselves. This was done in order to facilitate a spiritual voyage to the star Sirius, a "transit",
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Cult mass murder-suicide
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Vercors_massacre
date created:
2020-07-29T16:55:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T04:20:07Z
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