Bettina Galli-Magerl leads the crisis intervention team of the Red Cross Styria. She tells her team to support the victims of the Graz Amok tragedy in the first few hours.
Shortly after 10 a.m. the world stops in Graz. The 21-year-old former student Arthur A. shoots in two classes with a long weapon and a gun. Children die, others are seriously injured in the hail of bullets. Her classmates must look helpless how one shot after the other falls and the friends go to the ground.
The grief is unbearable. Parents have lost their favorite, others are still afraid of their sons and daughters. The shock is deep with everyone.
Spiritual care for around 600 people
The first time the employees of crisis intervention collapsed on the side. Bettina Galli-Magerl leads this to the Red Cross: “There has never been such a large location as it is now for us. We are also in a state of emergency,” she says. About 40 employees were immediately brought together and took care of victims and family members, but also for their own employees. At the same time, therapists and psychologists became networks to offer even more help.
Galli-Magerl: “At the first moment, the highest priority is to offer those who are affected a safe framework. This works in children, unlike adults. Children cannot persist for that long in a stressful situation, they switch quickly between sadness, stress and normality.” What can be dangerous because you would think they had the worst behind them.
Sacrifice had to continue to exist in the classes
About 600 people had to be cared for yesterday by the crisis intervention teams. An incredible degree. “Of course, family members of deceased are provided in one-on-one discussions,” informs the kit manager. The first phase is often about fairly banal things. Because the victims had to resist school for a while before they can be brought to safety: “For example, we ask if they need something to drink or eat. And then of course the reunification of the family must work as quickly as possible. But we are also involved with those affected if they want to perform rituals such as lying flowers or lying flowers or lying of flowers or lying down or lying down.”
The first 36 to 48 hours is the crisis intervention team for the many victims and family members. “Then aftercare starts for them,” Galli-Magerl explains. And that will take a lot of time for most of them.
Source: Krone
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