peoplepill id: maxime-brunerie
MB
France
9 views today
9 views this week
Maxime Brunerie
French assassin

Maxime Brunerie

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
French assassin
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Courcouronnes, canton of Évry-Nord, arrondissement of Évry, Essonne
Age
47 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Maxime Brunerie (born 21 May 1977) is a man who attempted to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac on July 14, 2002 in Paris, during the Bastille Day parade on the Champs-Élysées.

Armed with a .22 rifle, Maxime Brunerie fired one shot at the passing presidential motorcade before being overpowered by bystanders and arrested by police. According to police both shots were very wide and the shooter's inexperience and lack of preparation made success for the assassination attempt unlikely.

Brunerie was found to have been linked to the far-right group Unité Radicale (which was dissolved in the aftermath of the shooting), and had been a candidate for the far-right party Mouvement National Républicain at a local election, as well as being associated with the French and European Nationalist Party.

Maxime Brunerie's trial began on 6 December 2004. The court eventually found the defendant guilty of attempted murder, judging that his mental responsibility, though diminished, was not abolished. On 10 December 2004, Brunerie was sentenced to ten years of prison. He was freed after 7 years in jail, on 3 August 2009.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Maxime Brunerie is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Maxime Brunerie
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes