A country shaken by an unprecedented horror – Liberation

In front of the school, a young woman hesitates, undoubtedly impressed by the police and the television cameras planted not far from there. Then she takes two sheaves of flowers out of her backpack, hooks them on the fence and walks away without a word, tears in the eyes. The bank opposite is closed « For security reasons » ; A cyclist expects, out of habit in this country, that the fire goes to the green to cross even if the street is deserted, blocked to traffic by the police. In this artery lined with modern buildings, close to the center of the second largest city in Austria, it is silence that strikes, at the beginning of the afternoon.

A few hours earlier, Tuesday in the morning, ten people were killed in a shooting in the walls of the Lycée de la Dreierschützengasse establishment. The initial assessment was nine dead, a tenth victim died of his injuries at the end of the day. In the early evening, the father of a 17 -year -old French student announced that his son was one of the people killed in the shooting. « The police came at 6:30 p.m. to inform us »,He told AFP, wishing to remain anonymous. The number of deaths could further increase: a dozen people are seriously injured, with a vital prognosis committed for some. In the morning, the premises had been quickly secured and evacuated after the first calls reporting cries and shots. A crisis cell took the elements