On Wednesday, the Austrian authorities were looking for answers to the reason A 21 -year -old armed man shot 10 dead people In the stag in his former high school before killing himself, one of the worst exacerbations of violence in the modern history of the country.
Police said the man, the armed with a gun and a pistol, acted alone. They wander around his home and the Internet in search of evidence of the reason for opening it to school at school Austria The second city Graz On Tuesday, before shooting himself in the bathroom.
A teacher of religious studies at the school, Paul Nights, who left the semester before the gunman tried to enter him, and briefly saw him trying to shoot another door.
“This is something that I could not even imagine before, this was what the situation was when I ran on the stairs, I thought about myself:” This was not real. “
Some Austrian media said that the young man, who was not identified, was exposed to intimidation, although the police have not confirmed this yet. The Austrian authorities said that the suspect had not completed his studies at school.
The police said that he left a farewell note that did not reveal the motivation behind the attack, adding that the pipe bomb at his home was not functional.
Franz Rove, Director of Public Security, said that the investigations into the motivation were moving quickly.
“We don’t want to predict this stage,” he told ORF.
Rove said that about 17 minutes have passed between the first emergency calls to the police about the shots that are launched at the school and the scene is announced safe.
Details of the attack appeared slowly.
The Austrian police said that the victims were found abroad and inside the school, on various floors. About ten people were injured in the attack, some of them seriously.
Austria announced three days of national mourning, as the shootings led to a rare display of solidarity between the political parties divided into many cases. Parents of students and school neighbors have struggled to understand the event.
Hundreds met in the main square of a bell on Tuesday evening to remember the victims. Others left the luminous flowers and candles outside the school. Dozens of blood donation were also queues for the survivors.
