Charonne subway massacre

Charonne subway massacre

Commemorative plate at the Charonne subway station
Date	8 February 1962 (1962-02-08)
Location	Charonne subway station
Type	Civilian massacre by the police
Perpetrator	French police
Deaths	9
Non-fatal injuries	250

The massacre at the Charonne metro station of 8 February 1962 demonstration was a case of police brutality that took place around and in the Charonne metro station in Paris, against people demonstrating against the Secret Armed Organization (OAS) and the Algerian War, ultimately killing nine people.

The demonstration, organized by the French Communist Party and other left-wing organizations, had been banned, and the prefect of police of Paris, Maurice Papon, had given the order to repress it, with the agreement of the Minister of the Interior, Roger Frey, and the President of the Republic, Charles de Gaulle.

Among the demonstrators who tried to take refuge in the metro station, eight people died, due to suffocation or skull fractures, and a ninth protestor died in hospital, as a result of his injuries.