Talk:Éric Borel

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Former good article nomineeÉric Borel was a Social sciences and society good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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February 21, 2009Good article nomineeNot listed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 8, 2008.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Eric Borel, a teenager who killed 14 people in Cuers, Var, was the most deadly mass murderer in France since 1989?

Death toll[edit]

I've just found something interesting. The Le Monde article from March 6, 1996 mentions sixteen fatalities:

Un retraité blessé lors de la tuerie de Cuers (Var), le 24 septembre dernier, a succombé samedi 2 mars à ses blessures au centre hospitalier d'Aix-en-Provence. Pierre Marigliano, soixante-huit ans, est la seizième victime du drame. Il faisait ses courses lorsque le jeune meurtrier de seize ans, Eric Borel, avait ouvert le feu.

Though I've read several articles that mentioned 16 people dead, none of them bothered to elaborate. Maybe someone can shed a little bit of light into the darkness and verify the higher death toll. (Lord Gøn (talk) 22:39, 27 January 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Riddle solved, looky here: Le Monde (October 26, 1995)
la tuerie de Cuers a fait une quinzième victime. Une retraitée de soixante-huit ans, Jeanne Laugiero, grièvement blessée par l'adolescent qui avait abattu le 24 septembre treize personnes avant de se suicider, est décédée dimanche 23 octobre.(Lord Gøn (talk) 11:48, 30 January 2009 (UTC))[reply]

External links[edit]

The external links section was getting too big. The article is already well-cited and I see no reason to overcite things which don't need citing so I've just removed them. However, I've kept it in the page history and I'll copy the list below for reference if anybody thinks something needs adding as a source. Thanks, SITH (talk) 17:38, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Accidental Comedy[edit]

I have not much to add, other than that the way this paragraph is phrased and structured, is funny in ways that are probably not intended.

Many reports erroneously stated that Borel's room was full of Nazi paraphernalia, and rumors he was fascist sympathizer were spurred even more by the fact that his stepfather had attended several meetings of the Front National in 1989. But besides a picture of Adolf Hitler cut out from a newspaper, graffiti displaying a swastika on his door, a few books on World War II, as well as a documentary about the Waco siege, no evidence was found after his death that he was interested in any kind of politics.

Sometimes the search for encyclopedic accuracy and diligence, results in spontaneous acts of dark comedy. 2A01:E0A:8A7:D1A0:18DE:366C:1CF9:5246 (talk) 17:31, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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