School killings leave stunned Austria and France searching for answers

Two shocking attacks within two hours, in France and Austria, left their parents and governments, and losses how to protect school students from random, deadly violence.

About 08:15 On Tuesday, a 14-year-old boy from an ordinary family in Nogent, East France, drew a kitchen assistant and mortally stabbed the school assistant.

Non-indigenously in Southeast Austria, a 21-year-old who left school three years, entered the Dreierschutzenghasse high school at 09:43, and shot dead nine students and teachers with Glock 19 gun and shotgun.

In both countries there is demand for solutions and for a higher focus on young people who resort to such violence.

Austria has never seen a school attack on this scale, but French sting took place during the government program that aims to deal with growth in a knife.

Sagittarius Graz, appointed from Austrian media as Arthur, the police described as a very introverted person who pulled into the virtual world.

His “great passion” was online shooter with the first person, and he had social contacts with other players over the Internet, according to Michael Lohnegger, head of criminal investigation in Styria, the state in which it happened.

A former student at Dreierschutzenghasse school, Arthur and failed to complete the studies.

Arriving at school, he put on his headphones and shot glasses, before he dropped in a deadly shot with seven minutes shooting. Then he killed himself in the school bath.

The owner owns two rifles, past a psychological test to possess a license and had several sessions of weapons training at the beginning of this year in the shooting club Graz.

This provoked a great discussion in Austria about whether his weapons laws need to be tightened – and on the level of care available for problematic young people.

The shooter has appeared rejected from the obligatory military service of the country in July 2021. years.

The Ministry’s Defense Spokesman Michael Bauer told the BBC that Arthur was revealed to be “psychologically unsuitable” for service after submitting tests. But he said that the Austrian legal system prevented the army to cross the results of such tests.

There are now calls to change that law.

Alex, the mother of the 17-year-old boy who survived the shooting, said BBC that he should have more likely to prevent people like Arthur and to be processed on the first place.

“We know … that when people shoot each other, it is mainly when they feel themselves and get out and get out of them. And we don’t know how to return them to the company in groups, in their peak groups,” she said.

“We, like adults, got responsibility for that and now we have to take it.”

President Aleksandar Van Der Belen has raised the possibility of Austrian weapons laws, visiting Graz after the attack: “If we come to the conclusion that weapons laws must change to ensure greater security, we will do so.”

Austria has one of the most severe armed civilian populations in Europe, and 30 firearms per 100 people were estimated.

Although there were no school shootings here before, they were far smaller and involved that they were far fewer victims.

Graz mayor, Elke Kahr, does not believe that no private person could have weapons at all. “Weapons licenses are issued too fast,” she said she told Austrian Ori TV. “Only the police need to wear a weapon, not a private person.”

Armed gendarmes were present at the entrance to Francoise Dolt in Nogent, 100 km (62 km), when the teenage was pulled by the kitchen of 20 cm and the Melanie G, which was 31 years old and had a four-year-old son.

The boy was accused of spending the murder told the police that another school assistant was rebuked for the kissing of his girl on Friday.

As a result, he at all had a cover over school assistants and apparently decided to kill him. Schools were closed on Monday for the bank holiday, and Tuesday was the first day back.

The initial assessment of the State Prosecutor was that a boy, called Cuentin, came from a normal official family and had no record of mental health.

However, the child also seemed a detached and without emotion. Adept in violent video games, he showed “death fascination” and “the absence of reference points related to the value of human life”.

Nutrent attack does not correspond to anti-social crime to combat social youth or gang violence seen in France so far.

There are also no indoctrination proposals for social media.

According to the prosecutor, the boy did a little. He was violent on two occasions against counterparts, and every day was suspended for one day.

There is no feline of the family or deprivation and school officials described it as “socially, quite a good student, well integrated into the life of the institution.”

This year, even the appointed Class “Ambassador” about the bullying.

For all calls for greater security in schools, this crime has literally took place below the noses of armed genders. As the Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau set, some crimes will happen no matter how much police you ask.

For more information about the boy’s condition, we need to wait for a full report of the psychologist, and there may be misspieces or there are details about the family we do not know about.

On the face, he may be a mid-class loner, and its obvious normality suggests a crime that run internalized mental processes, not a team of moving on peer or emulation.

That’s what is attacking chord in France. If an ordinary boy can turn out this from watching too many violent videos, who is next?

It is significant that the French government is only approved only by showing British adolescences Netflix series as help in schools.

There are differences, of course.

The boy was arrested for the killing of a teen girl in the TV series, evil “toxic male” influence on social media – but there is the same issue of teenagers that are set endangered online insulation.

Through the political spectrum, there are calls for action, but a small agreement on what should be a priority, nor does it hope for something to do many differences.

Before the murder, President Emmanuel Macron seemed right, saying that they are too obsessed with crimes, not interested enough in other questions like the environment.

The nogent attack put him on the back leg and reiterated his promise to ban social media up to a 15 year old.

But there are two difficulties. One convenience is a measure that is treated in the theory, but it is subject to endless delay.

It is another, according to the prosecutor, the boy was not particularly interested in social media. They were violent video games that were his thing.

Prime Minister Francois Bairou said the sale of knives to the under 15 will be prohibited. But the boy took his from the house.

Bairou says the metal detectors at the airport should be tested in schools, but most heads opposes.

The populist right wants to strive for teenagers who wear knives and exclusion of devastating students from regular classes.

But the boy in Nogent was not a child’s problem.

O The only extent tells everyone that it takes more provisions of school doctors, nurses and psychologists to discover the early signs of students leaving rails.

This will of course need a lot of money, which is another thing that France has not much.