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The two explosions at Silo 110 of the plant formed a crater 90 m by 125 m wide and 19 m deep. The explosions were heard as two loud bangs in north-eastern France and in München, more than 300 km away, and are estimated to have contained an energy of 1–2 kilotonnes TNT equivalent. Over 2.000 people were injured. According to some descriptions only 10% of the 4.500 tonnes of fertilizer stored in the silo detonated in the incident.
(21 September 1921)

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Metz, Lorraine, France.

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Thursday 8th of July 1943 (-) — Hero of the French Résistance Jean Moulin dies from injuries sustained during torture by Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon.
Moulin was on a train heading for Germany.
Saturday 16th of December 1967 (-) — Child killer Günther Volz is executed by the Guillotine.
Monday 8th of July 1991 (-) — Gangster and cop killer Johnny Mottry commits suicide by hanging in his cell.
Tuesday 7th of May 1991 (-) — Victim of Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer Laurence Guillaume is raped and strangled by Francis Heaulme aka The Emmaus Murderer aka Le Routard du Crime.
In this murder Heaulme was accompanied by the 19-year-old cousin of the victim Michel Guillaume, whom he had met less than an hour earlier at the fair in Metz. Guillaume was convicted of rape and complicity in the murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison.