Serge FORTIN
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics: Revenge
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: September 7, 1999
Date of arrest: Same day
Date of birth: 1954
Victims profile: Henri Bohuon, 78, and his wife Denise, 72 / Marie Lepage, 73, and her daughter Marie-Claire Berthelot, 52 (neighbors)
Method of murder: Shooting
Location: Le Verger, Ille et Vilaine, Brittany, France
Status: Sentenced to life in prison. Commuted to 30 years in prison on October 2001. Committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell on October 4, 2003
A jobless man killed four neighbours in a village feud in western France and surrendered after anti-terrorist police surrounded his home for several hours.
Serge Fortin, a 45-year-old unemployed locksmith, shot two retired farmers in one house and a pensioner and her daughter in another house in the hamlet of Le Verger, near the Brittany town of Rennes. A fifth person was wounded.
On October 11, 2003, Serge Fortin commits suicide in the prison of Rennes.
Serge Fortin, 49, was expiating a sentence of thirty years. This former locksmith to the unemployed committed suicide for strangulation.
