Christian Dornier

While Roger Clausse alerted police, Dornier drove towards Baume-les-Dames, killing Louis Girardot on the way and shooting gendarme René Sarrazin in the arm. While being chased by 40 police officers, he shot Georges Pernin and Marie-Alice Champroy at a crossroads – causing their cars to crash – and killed Pierre Boeuf. When he came to Verne, he was finally engaged by police and wounded in the stomach during a shootout before being taken into custody.

An application by the victims' families to bring Dornier before a criminal court was dismissed on March 2, 1994. On March 16 the same year, about fifty residents of Luxiol protested against the decision in front of the court in Besançon.

Dornier was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia and thus could not be held accountable for his crime according to French law, much to the anger of the victims' families. He has been treated in a psychiatric hospital in Sarreguemines since April 1991.

Dornier was kept under heavy guard in a hospital in Besançon. On July 15 he was transferred to the prison hospital in Fresnes and charged with fourteen counts of murder and eight counts of attempted murder. Two psychiatrists were appointed to examine his mental state, and in November the same year they declared that Dornier was suffering from schizophrenia, was therefore not responsible for his crimes, and should be confined in a special facility for dangerous patients. Their findings were confirmed in February 1990 and so he was declared insane and transferred from the prison in Dijon, where he was held in remand, to the mental hospital in Sarreguemines on April 18, 1991.

In July 1989, Dornier apparently had a nervous breakdown and didn't attend the wedding of his sister on July 8. Instead, he drove through the area the entire day.

On July 12, 1989, Dornier refused to have lunch with his family. He moved the car of his brother-in-law, Daniel Maillard, out of the way of his own vehicle, and then waited in the kitchen, where he had hidden a double-barrelled shotgun behind a cupboard. The shotgun was earlier found by Maillard when it was overthrown by his dog, though he thought that Dornier's father had put it there after the previous shooting incidents.

Christian Dornier was the oldest child of Georges and Jeanne Dornier; he had a sister named Corinne and a brother named Serge. Dornier served twelve months in the military around 1981, which apparently negatively affected him. Dornier was described as a reserved person who liked to read and work in the forest. According to his brother he had no friends and hardly talked to anyone, sometimes not talking to anyone in the nearby village of Luxiol for weeks.

Christian Dornier (born July 15, 1958 in Baume-les-Dames) is a French mass murderer who murdered his sister and mother and wounded his father with a 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun at their farm on July 12, 1989. He then drove through the village of Luxiol and the adjacent area, shooting people at random. A total of fourteen people were killed and eight others injured in Dornier's half-hour rampage, before police managed to subdue him.