Mikael Blom ate lunch with his colleagues when Richard Andersson started the mass shooting at the school a week ago. Mikael Blom tells SVT News that Tuesday, February 4, left memories that he will never forget.
– First it was when we heard the first bang and didn’t really understand what it was. I went closer to the sound and realized then when I heard several powerful bangs that this was actually gunfire and the fear that came and the panic that arose on the scene.
The second memory image that Mikael Blom will carry with him is when he managed to get out to the school yard just before the police arrived at the scene.
– There were people who screamed, there were people who were completely paralyzed. I saw four people carry a bullet wounded person in a car, but there were also people who wanted to go back into the building, they wanted to enter even though it was gunfire, to save loved ones. These are pictures I will never be able to forget, says Mikael Blom.
He stood for the gate to school to prevent them from getting into the danger.
– I realized that this is a life -threatening situation and if it is somewhere you should not get back, it is into school right then. So I obviously prevented several people and stood in the way and pushed people away from school to, like somewhere, save them.
Sadness and joy in the meetings after the deed
During the past week, Mikael Blom met many of the students, relatives of victims and colleagues who hid at school during the terrible act.
– Of course there is a lot of sadness, but there is also joy in those meetings. To actually meet again and meet and do it in life, so to speak, says Mikael Blom.
A week has passed and the initial crisis has settled. Now the work is waiting to again create a safe place for students and employees. Around Örebro, the municipality has opened meeting places where students, relatives and employees can go to seek support.
– It seems that we still reach the students, then if it is enough it is difficult to say but we do as best we can, says Mikael Blom.