In church services in the Graz Cathedral and in the Egenberg Vinzenzkirche, hundreds of people, including the entire top government, commemorate the victim of the murder on Tuesday evening. When moving words, the pastors reminded young people who had to let their lives.
Hundreds of mourning people in the Graz Cathedral were heavily guarded by many police services on Tuesday evening. Among them is the entire top government: Chancellor Christian Stocker, Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler and Foreign Minister Beaten Meinl-Reisinger, Plus Ministers and State Secretaries. Due to the arrival of some top politicians, the start was even shifted by half an hour.
“I can warmly welcome you – even if I prefer it if I didn’t have to do it,” the pastor Ewald Pristavec opened. He reported that he celebrated a service at Pentecost on Saturday with a girl who left his life at the Killing Spree on Tuesday. Time and again it was heard in the fully occupied pews sob, and spotted in many faces.
“We are still trusting the collaboration”
The prayer was also given in the St. Vinzenz -Church in the vicinity of the crime scene that evening. There was a striking number of children and adolescents among the visitors. “We are ignoring a light for Leo,” said Pastor Bernd Pesendorfer. “So far this is the only name I know.”
Everyone got up and sang, “Lord, grace.” Two young girls stood in the last row, they brought a bouquet of roses and cried. Even the spiritual ones, who had been to school in the morning, continued to struggle with tears. “How do you prepare yourself at such a moment?” He asks in the crowd. “Not at all! What words should you find? None!” A very emotional sermon followed.
“I would also like to express a request for the perpetrator,” said Pesendorfer. “There is probably a difficult fate behind him.” Piano music sounded: “We are still trusting the collaboration.”
Source: Krone
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