Authorities are investigating whether the 16-year-old attacker belongs to a Nazi group
On Friday, at least three people were killed and another 11 injured after a shooting at two schools in Brazil. The shooter was a former student of one of the educational centers, who receives psychiatric care and was wearing a swastika on his clothing at the time of the attack.
The 16-year-old attacker was not identified by authorities and confessed to the crime when he was arrested by police, but at the moment he has not explained the reason for the attack, according to what authorities said at a press conference. The attack took place in the town of Aracruz, Espírito Santo state, leaving a total of three dead, two teachers and a child, and 11 injured, four of them in serious condition.
The young man was a student at Primo Bitti School, one of the educational centers attacked, until last June, the month in which he changed schools for reasons unknown to authorities. To commit the crime, he used a semi-automatic pistol belonging to his father, a police officer and a police revolver.
According to the regional secretary of Public Security Márcio Celante, the attacker said he planned the crime for two years and shot at will, “without any particular target”. Espíritu Santo governor Renato Casagrande said at the same press conference that the young man has a “mental problem” for which he is receiving psychiatric care.
He also revealed that he had a swastika on the camouflage clothing he was wearing at the time of the attack. The authorities are investigating whether he belongs to a Nazi group. “This shows how the culture of violence is present in some people, and unfortunately also in some young people,” said Casagrande.
The young man went to school in his father’s car, entered the Primo Bitti school and broke the padlock on the back door, went to the teachers’ lounge and opened fire on the teachers, who were having a break between classes. He then went to the Praia do Coqueiral education center, a private school on the same avenue, and shot several children, then fled, but was arrested hours later at a family home.
Source: La Verdad
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