A former student killed at least ten people, including a Frenchman, in a school in Graz in Austria, this Tuesday, June 10. The assailant committed suicide.
The drama is not preceded in the country, which has decreed three days of national mourning.
Eleven dead, including the assailant
The events took place this Tuesday morning in Graz, the second city of Austria, in a secondary establishment that welcomed around 400 young people from 14 to 18 years.
The facilities were quickly secured and evacuated after the first calls that indicate shouts and shots around 10 am
Eleven people died, telling the attacker who finished his days. Initially, the authorities reported an evaluation of nine dead and twelve injured, some of which seriously. The death of a woman in the hospital after her wounds was announced later at the end of the afternoon.
The victims are seven people with female sex and three male sex. Your age has not been specified. Among them A French student isannounced at night that National Minister of Education Elisabeth was born.
The mobile of the suspect still unknown
The alleged author acted alone and committed suicide in the bathroom, according to the police, who refused to speculate on his mobile at this stage or in the course of the events.
The young man, a 21 -year -old Austrian from the region, used to attack a rifle and a gun that legally held.
He had been educated in high school where he committed his act, but he had not completed his course.
Strong emotion in the country
Foreign Minister Christian Store, who arrived at the event, deplored “a national tragedy.” “It’s a dark day,” he said in front of the press, announcing a three -day national duel. A minute of silence must be observed throughout the country on Wednesday at 10 am
In front of the establishment, some bouquets of roses and candles were deposited, the stores that prefer to lower the curtain for security.
Giorgia Meloni in Italy, Viktor Orban in Hungary, Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine … In front of the test, many European leaders have expressed their emotion.
“Graz’s news touches me in my heart,” said the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in X.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, also expressed his “strong emotion” and addressed “the relatives of the victims” as “to the Austrian people” all “the solidarity of France.”
“Our thoughts go with our Austrian friends and neighbors and share their duel,” said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after this “horrible” attack.
A rare attack in Austria
Far from the dramas of this type that regularly shake to other Western countries, Austria, a member of the EU of 9.2 million inhabitants, is not used for this type of crime. It is among the ten safest states in the world, according to the World Peace Index (Global Peace Index).
According to the ORF of the Austrian public channel, the last shooting in schools in Austria dates back to 1997. A 16 -year -old teenager killed a teacher and seriously injured another in the Zöbern commune, in the east of the country.
In recent years, Europe has been shaken by several academic and university attacks that do not suffer acts of terrorism. In France, an education assistant was fatally stabbed on Tuesday by a university student in front of his establishment, exciting great emotion.
Slovakia and Croatia were recently disconsolate by knife attacks. The Czech Republic was hit at the end of 2023, when a student killed 14 people in Prague.
In March of the same year, nine students and the caretaker of a school in the center of Belgrade in Serbia had been fired by a thirteen student.
“Serbia feels his pain, because we have also experienced tragedies whose memory is still fresh and whose scars are deeply printed in the hearts of each of us,” said President Aleksandar Vucic.
Source: BFM TV
