Killing Spree in a School in Ansbach
If a student goes to school this is probably nothing special, but if he brings molotov cocktails, knives and an axe with him, there is nothing good to happen. In a Bavarian town called Ansbach this has happened today.
According to information of the police the student entered the school at 8:30a.m. He threw one molotov cocktail into both the classrooms of a ninth and an eleventh class. Two students were injured heavily (one due to fire and one due to attacks with knife and axe).
There have been some cases in which students invaded their school with guns and shot people, some also built bombs, but I never heard of somebody attacking his schoolmates with an axe. It also seems like this was the first culprit in such a case who did not kill himself afterwards (compare below).
Former cases of killing spree in school
In 2002 a student in Erfurt shot 16 people, most of them teachers. He had to leave school before and maybe wanted to have revenge for some injustice he felt. In the end he killed himself. The main problem probably was that in his region you do not receive any graduation certificate if you leave school earlier (other countries give you a secondary school level I graduation when you leave after tenth class), therefore he had no perspective for the future.
After some years of silence, another ex-student went to his former school in Emsdetten and shot around. He injured 37 people and then killed himself. The interesting aspect is that the culprit published a suicide note on the internet claiming that his classmates had molested him before.
In spring 2009 15 people had to die in a shooting in Winnenden. Unlike the culprit in Emsdetten, this one killed his victims with headshots. He also chose the classes he entered very selectively entering ninth and tenth classes who knew him. The culprit escaped about 40km far and shot somebody in a car shop. When the police had reached him, he killed himself.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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