Schietpartij op school in Finland

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 13:51 schreef Repthyl het volgende:
Ik hoorde nu ook weer dat de politie er daar van te voren van wist!! Ze hadden z'n youtube filmpjes al gezien enzo maar namen het niet serieus : (

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 13:54 schreef Leatherface het volgende:

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Zal wel een hele discussie teweegbrengen daar.

Er lijkt toch een soort van subcultuur te zijn van door wapens geobsedeerde jongeren, makkelijk te traceren op youtube e.d.

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 13:54 schreef Leatherface het volgende:

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Zal wel een hele discussie teweegbrengen daar.

Er lijkt toch een soort van subcultuur te zijn van door wapens geobsedeerde jongeren, makkelijk te traceren op youtube e.d.

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HELSINKI, Finland — A gunman opened fire at a vocational school for adults in western Finland on Tuesday before shooting himself, police said. Finnish media reported nine people were killed and the gunman was wounded.

The shootings began just before 11 a.m. local time as about 150 students went to class in Kauhajoki, 180 miles northwest of Helsinki. Witnesses said panic broke out as the hooded gunman entered the school and began firing.

"Within a short space of time I heard several dozen rounds of shots, in other words it was an automatic pistol," school janitor Jukka Forsberg told broadcaster YLE. "I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning and one managed to escape out of the back door."

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YLE, citing police at the school, reported nine people were killed. The Finnish news agency STT said the school building was on fire and the gunman reportedly had explosives on him.

Jussi Muotio, superintendent of the Kauhajoki police, confirmed that several people had been wounded but could not immediately confirm the deaths. "The incident is over now," Muotio said.

Vesa Nyrhinen, detective superintendent from the local police, declined to say how seriously the gunman was injured. "He was wounded by his own bullets," he said.

The gunman, a student at the school in the town of Kauhajoki, opened fire inside the building for some time before he shot himself, police said.

A Finnish hospital official said the gunman was "severely injured" by a gunshot wound to head.

Rescue personnel around the school had been unable to help while the student was continuing to fire in the building, said rescue squad coordinator Kari Saarinen, chief physician at Senajoki Hospital.

College rector Timo Varmola told YLE there were 150 students in the school at the time.

The shootings happened almost a year after another gunman killed eight people and himself at a school in southern Finland, an attack that triggered a fierce debate about gun laws in this Nordic nation with deep-rooted traditions of hunting in the sub-Arctic wilderness.

With 1.6 million firearms in private hands, Finland is an anomaly in Europe, lagging behind only the United States and Yemen in civilian gun ownership, studies show.

Finnish media said YouTube clips of a man firing a gun appeared to be linked to the shooting. In one of them, a young man wearing a leather jacket fires several shots in rapid succession with a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.

The posting was made five days before the shooting and the location was given as Kauhajoki. The posting included a message saying: "Whole life is war and whole life is pain. And you will fight alone in your personal war."

The person who posted the clip identified himself as a 22-year-old with the name "Mr. Saari." He also posted three other clips of himself firing a handgun in the past three weeks.

Clips from the 1999 Columbine school shootings in Colorado were listed among his favorite videos.

Police could not immediately confirm whether the postings were linked to Tuesday's shooting.

Last year, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, described by police as a bullied 18-year-old outcast, opened fire at his high school in southern Finland on Nov. 7. He killed six students, a school nurse and the principal before ending his own life with a gunshot to the head.

Finnish investigators have said Auvinen left a suicide note for his family and foreshadowed his attack in YouTube postings.

After Auvinen's rampage, the government said it would raise the minimum age for buying guns from 15 to 18, but insisted there was no need for sweeping changes to Finland's gun laws.

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 14:05 schreef Tabloid het volgende:
Dit was toch vorig jaar ook al gebeurt?

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 13:57 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:

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Nou nou, ik heb ook wel een Youtube filmpje van mezelf schietend. Niet alle jonge schutters zijn gestoorde moordenaars...

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 13:57 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:

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Nou nou, ik heb ook wel een Youtube filmpje van mezelf schietend. Niet alle jonge schutters zijn gestoorde moordenaars...

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 14:12 schreef Re het volgende:

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jij begeleidt dat filmpje warschijnlijk niet met teksten als i am a warrior and I'll end your suffering etc... of als favo youtube filmpje wat andere schoolmoordpartijen...


internet wordt zo wel een stuk interessanter iig...

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 14:12 schreef Re het volgende:

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jij begeleidt dat filmpje warschijnlijk niet met teksten als i am a warrior and I'll end your suffering etc... of als favo youtube filmpje wat andere schoolmoordpartijen...


internet wordt zo wel een stuk interessanter iig...

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 15:23 schreef speknek het volgende:
Wel oud trouwens, 22. Die Cho was 23, maar voor de rest waren het allemaal min of meer pubers.

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Dit was (is) één van zijn favoriet bands:

Turmion Kätilöt - Teurastaja

Dan zit er inderdaad een steekje los bij je.

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 16:35 schreef schoelje het volgende:
Radio 1 meldt zojuist dat de schutter de pijp aan maarten heeft gegeven.

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Op dinsdag 23 september 2008 16:59 schreef dieselnoi het volgende:
Volgens mij was dit wel eens eerder gebeurt in Finland. Maar ik kan mij vergissen. Het is dus niet alleen Amerika