« You can’t imagine how bad it is » – DiePresse.com
The 21-year-old perpetrator, who shot ten people in the Borg Dreierschützengasse in Graz, is dead. He was a former student. A local inspection in a city in a state of emergency.
Screams break through the silence pressed. A woman sags together. In front of her, students from a green joint bus from the Graz lines. In the ASKÖ sports center opposite the idyllic park of Castle Eggenberg, parents and relatives finally meet the pupils of the Borg Dreierschützengasse after hours of tremors. It’s a reunion. Or not.
A 21-year-old Austrian committed a killing spree in Graz on Tuesday. The young man entered the Borg Dreierschützengasse with two weapons around ten in the morning and shot wildly there. In the end, eleven people were dead. Seven female and four male. Eight students, two adults and the shooter himself. He finally committed suicide on a toilet of the school.
« The teacher immediately locked the class »
« Hello, please stay together, you will meet your parents now and get as much time as you need, » says a man of the team while heading the young people from the bus to the sports center. After the assassination attempt in the Helmut-List-Halle near the school, the students were cared for, while the parents in the ASKÖ hall had to wait for information. A tough waiting.
Even young people can hardly wait to come to their relatives. They are visibly in shock. In the fifth grade, a German lesson was running when shots suddenly fell. « Our teacher immediately locked the class, » says Alexander.
« /> Parents and children are combined again. Reuters / Borut Zivulovic
« At first I believed that it would be firecrackers, then it was shouting and we ran, » says another student. She also ran: and got to safety in the Spar supermarket with classmates and her teacher. Back to school, she no longer wants to say: « I don’t want to know what it looks like there. »
« My son called me while it happened-I was so happy that he was on the phone, » says a mother while waiting for her son in front of the ASKÖ hall. A friend of his had to be taken to the hospital injured. He himself ran into the school’s garden during the killing spree to hide there. « Waiting is the worst, » says the mother before her voice breaks. « It only slowly comes up how luck she was, » says another mother, whose daughter was also at school.
« You don’t hear anything for so long »
There is a father nearby. He has his arm on the daughter’s shoulder. The eyes are tearing tears. « You can’t imagine how bad it is. You wait – and don’t hear anything for so long. » Another family goes by stubborn eyes.
The Borg Dreierschützengasse is located in a former industrial zone in the northwest of the city, which has intensively built in recent years. The area was cordoned off by the police on Tuesday. During the mission, a police helicopter circled the area of application. Nobody can take the misfortune here. It is the largest killing spree in Austria’s history, around ten years after the last killing spree in Graz.
A woman succumbed to her serious injuries in the hospital on Tuesday evening. In addition to the dead, there are eleven seriously injured. They were admitted to three hospitals. Six patients are looked after at the LKH Graz, four were brought to the UKH Graz, another victim is cared for at the LKH Graz II/Location West. Two were very critical on Tuesday afternoon, five seriously injured. All were operated on. One person came on his face with a gunshot wound, two had gunshot wounds on his legs and a girl suffered a break in the shoulder area due to a shot.
From the first alarm, all capacities were kept free at the clinics, the Kages said. After the alarm, the accident hospital called ten doctors and 16 nurses from leisure or vacation.
The perpetrator was an Austrian
At an urgent press conference, in which, in addition to Interior Minister Karner, also Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker (both ÖVP) and Minister of Education Christoph Return (NEOS) were present among others, they tried to put the incomprehensible into words, but only announced sparse information about the perpetrator. The investigation is still ongoing.
What is certain is that the perpetrator came from the Graz environment and was an Austrian (apparently without a migration background). He was a former student of the Borg, but did not complete the school. He legally had the two weapons (a long and a fist fir weapon), he was not known to the authorities. On the other hand, it is still unconfirmed that the young man was exposed to massive bullying attacks during his school days, as reported by the “Salzburger Nachrichten”. It has also not yet been confirmed that he opened fire in his former classrooms and next to it.
« /> Press conference on site with politicians and police. APA / AFP / Alex Halada
Chancellor Christian Stocker (ÖVP) speaks of a dark day. « There are no words to express the pain. Our country is quiet, » he said at the press conference. He announced a three -day state mourning. A nationwide funeral minute will take place on Wednesday at ten o’clock.
Help in crisis situations
There are a number of auxiliary facilities and contact points for people in acute crisis situations. At www.suizid-praevention.gv.at you can find emergency numbers and first aid for suicidal thoughts.
Telephone help is also available at:
Crisis intervention center (Mon-Fri 8 a.m.-5 p.m.): 01/406 95 95, crisis intervention center.at
Council and help with the risk of suicide 0810/97 71 55
Psychiatric instant aid (0 a.m. to 9 p.m.): 01/313 30
Social psychiatric emergency service 01/310 87 79
Telephone pastoral care (0 a.m. to 9 p.m., free of charge): 142
Council on wire (0 a.m. to 9 p.m., for children & adolescents): 147
Talking and behavioral tips: bittelebe.at
The still young club « stay with us » also offers help for people with thoughts of suicide and relatives. www.lebbebeituns.at
