“The nightmare has come true,” wrote this Wednesday, February 5, the daily Dagens Nyheter. Sweden is in shock. In the aftermath of the worst killing in the history of the Nordic country, which left ten dead in an adult teaching center in Örebro (200 km west of Stockholm), many questions remain unanswered.
The drama took place in the middle of the day in this training center reserved for adults preparing the equivalent of the bac. “I stood [en face du centre de formation] When I saw some bodies lying on the ground. I did not know if they were dead or injured, “said Linn M., 16, educated in a school near the place of the killing on Tuesday evening.” There was blood everywhere, people panicked and cried, parents were worried […] It was chaos, “she said, the trembling voice.
A 35 -year -old man in the virgin criminal record
King Carl XVI Gustav and his wife Sylvia are expected on the spot, just like Prime Minister Ulf KrisSson. Wednesday morning, the latest assessment communicated by Örebro police reported eleven dead, including the assailant who would have “most likely” suicide. Six people, all adults, were also taken care of in hospital for bullet injuries. Five of them, three women and two men, were operated on. “Their condition is serious but stable,” said the region’s health services. The sixth victim is slightly injured.
If the condition of the injured is becoming clearer this Wednesday, the killer’s profile and motivations remain enigmatic. “The motif of the shooting is not yet known, but everything suggests that the author has acted alone, without ideological reason,” said the police.
According to this same source, the killer is not known to the police and has no connection with a gang. A track that had first been favored while Sweden has been shaken for several years by violence between criminal bands for drug trafficking control.
According to the TV4 television channel, the assailant’s home was searched Tuesday at the end of the day: the author was 35 years old and had a weapon port permit, as well as a virgin criminal record. Tabloid AFTONBLADET said for his part, citing relatives that the man lived reclusive, had no job and had moved away from his family and friends. An investigation was opened for “attempted murder, criminal fire and aggravated offense in arms legislation”.
Sweden already bereaved in the past
Some serious incidents have already taken place in schools in Sweden in recent years, although schools, whose doors are most often wide open, have so far been relatively spared by violence. In March 2022, an 18 -year -old pupil stabbed two teachers in a high school in the city of Malmö in the south of the country. Two months earlier, a 16 -year -old was arrested after having injured another student and a teacher with a knife in a school in the small neighboring town of Kristianstad.
Almost ten years ago, in October 2015, three people were killed during a racist attack in a school in the city of Trollhättan, in the west of the country, by an assailant armed with a saber, who was then killed by the police.