The Chantada stabbing occurred on March 8, 1989 when Paulino Fernández killed 7 people and wounded 6–7 in the Chantada municipality, Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain.
At 2:30 p.m., he left his house with a knife and met his neighbor, who was chopping wood.
A neighbor asked for help from people on the street, and he was taken by car to a hospital in Chantada.
Despite the fact that they all had sickles, Paulino killed three with a knife on the spot and wounded one woman.
At the end of the attack, one man managed to take a knife from him and Paulino went home.
His brother learned of the massacre and took Paulino's wife out of the house.
During the fire, his body fell to the ground floor of the stable and was found there.
Some time before the attack, he bought several plots of land from his relatives in Brazil.
In 1971, he was diagnosed with depressive syndrome with a pathological reflex that affected his stomach and liver.
Three years later, he returned to a psychiatrist and his diagnosis largely coincided with the previous one.
His wife recalled that he had a single attack of insanity as a child and that there were many images of saints on his bedside table.