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