Her police Austriaconsider today’s (10.06.2025) carnage At Graz’s school, he was motivated by revenge, as the perpetrator felt that he had fallen victim to systematic intimidation when he was a student himself, Austrian police are investigating.
According to a report by Kronen Zeitung, In the suicide note found at the home of 21 -year -old Artur A., the perpetrator writes that he felt intimidated. The newspaper also states that Police had focused early on this incentive.
In the same vein, Kurier newspaper points out that “There is evidence that the 21 -year -old may have been intimidated by school during his earlier school period and may have acted either by revenge or by frustration.”. For the time being, however, the Austrian newspaper explains, there is no definitive explanation about why the attack occurred years after his likely harassment at school.
The competent service of Styria He now examines the mobile phone and computer of the perpetratorbut also his personal belongings seized during research at his home, with the aim of outlining Artur A.’s psychological profile. He has also been found in a video in which the perpetrator bids farewell to his parents.
Austrian media also report that the weapons of the assassination attack, in which 11 people died, were bought legally a few days ago, A fact that is considered to be in the assumption that the crime was carefully designed.
Under investigation is still If the two school classrooms in which he invaded were randomly or deliberately selected. The Ministry of the Interior has created a special platform in which individuals can post visual or audio material from the attack and calls for “avoid any corresponding posting on social media, so as not to endanger security personnel, investigations or victims”. Later, the police, in a posting on “X”, warned that such actions also have legal consequences.
Doxology in favor of victims
Earlier tonight at the Graz Cathedral Epsali Doxology, which was also attended by Chancellor Christian Stoker, while hundreds of people have gathered outside the crime point of crime. Austria’s Islamic Religious Community (IGGö) also honored the memory of the victims in the mosques of Styria tonight after the daily afternoon prayer: “This fact leaves us speechless and deeply saddened,” said the president of the community.
The school will remain closed this week and students and parents can all day resort to psychological support for special units installed at an adjacent stage. From next week, the courses are expected to be repeated, in the presence of a psychologist in the classrooms.
At the center of the discussion of school protection
In the meantime the debate has been opened Measures of protection of schools from corresponding attacks. Austrian Ministry of Education Secretary General Martin Netser told the ORF Public Television Newsletter that “We have to do everything possible to minimize such risks and this is a constant process.”
Answering a question, Mr Netser said, however, that he was not sure that by locking the schools we would enhance the sense of security or eventually cause more insecurity. “We must be careful here to make our reaction commensurate and internationally has been shown that the lock is not a panacea,” he added.
At the same time, the focus of the debate is also the legislation on gun ownership. The General Manager of Public Security Franz Rouf stressed the ORF that “of course, after such incidents we must consider whether the law has gaps and whether it should be stricter” and clarified that in the case of the perpetrator the permit of the gun ownership did not foresee his weapons permit.