Religious teacher Paul Nitsche witnessed the murderous Spree in Graz. According to his own statements, he even had visual contact. Now he tries to help the students about the trauma – and is already preparing for unpleasant questions.
The Protestant religious teacher Paul Nitsche was only in a classroom of the Borg Dreierschützengasse when the horror started on Tuesday: “The door was open, I was too afraid of closing it,” he describes the moments when he observed the first shots.
When he got into the hallway, “Nitsche saw the man while trying to shoot a door lock. Then I ran away. I saw people lying on the floor, it does something to you,” he recalls.
How can God allow that?
Nitsche seems calm and trapped when he asks the media questions for the Graz List Hall the morning after the Graz List Hall “as a affected person, as a pastor, not as an official spokesperson for the school,” as he emphasizes. How many members of the teaching staff came to offer the students “a room to talk”.
But he must also admit that he has no idea how students and teachers have to process all experienced: “I, we are experiencing it all for the first time. We now have to go step by step,” he says. And as a religion teacher, he already suspects what question will be asked by many: how can God allow something like that? His answer: “I can only hope that we now experience special God’s blessing.”
Source: Krone
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