7 hours agoKilling 9 students in Graz: Austrian investigators say attacker “carefully planned” the attack on school
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(a year ago)The 21-year-old striker, who killed nine students and a teacher in his former secondary school in Austria, had carefully planned the seven-minute attack. Austrian investigators also said on June 12th that the attacker had played many online games involving shootings and murders. Tuesday's attack on [...]
Tuesday's attack on a high school in Graz ended after the former student of this school committed suicide.
Investigators have so far failed to find out the motive, said police investigators head Michael Lozhegger, who described the attacker as a very introvert”, who had lived with his mother in a village on the outskirts of Graz, reports the REL broadcast. Periscope.
We discovered that he had a great passion to play online games with”, Lonegger said.
The attacker, who had left school three years earlier without completing his studies and whom authorities have not appointed so far, had carefully planned the attack, according to a hand-written letter found in his house, he added.
This footnote “indicates that the entire course of events was planned by the attacker to the smallest detail”, Loegger said.
Lozhegger added that the teacher he killed was one of his previous teachers, while according to the investigation so far “ai had no personal connection with students” he shot.
Just before 10: 00 a.m. Tuesday, the attacker entered Dreyerschuetgasse High School through the main entrance. He had a bag in which he had a gun, a rifle and ammo. At the time of the attack, according to Lozhegger, as many as 400 students were at school.
The attacker had then gone to the third floor to the top floor of the school, entered a bathroom, armed with firearms and a hunting knife, and then started firing.
“From 09:57, he started shooting at school and shooting lasted close to seven times”, Loegger said.
He went to the second floor, where he opened fire to people at school. Then he boarded the third floor. There, he began shooting a closed door of a class and then began to shoot indiscriminately at the people within that class”, he added.
Then, according to investigators, the attacker returned to the bathroom and killed himself shortly before the police arrived at school.
The striker, who had received gun permission after being subjected to psychological evaluations in March, had bought the rifle he used in the attack through a salesman in Graz in April and the pistol in another town in May, Loegger said.
At the age of 18, the attacker was refused by authorities to perform mandatory military service after undergoing psychological and physical tests, which they found was not “capable of” psychologically serving in the army, Defence Ministry spokesman Michael Bauer said in a response to the AFP.
After the attack, Austria declared three days of mourning, and a debate on weapons laws has begun in this country.
During the raids on the attacker's house, police also found a non-functional “craftsmanial bomb”, a farewell letter and a video message he had left for his mother. /Radio Free Europe
