School killings leave stunned Austria and France searching for answers
Two shocking attacks within two hours of each other, in France and Austria, have left parents and governments reeling and at a loss how to protect school students from random, deadly violence.
At about 08:15 on Tuesday, a 14-year-old boy from an ordinary family in Nogent, eastern France, drew out a kitchen knife during a school bag check and fatally stabbed a school assistant.
Not long afterwards in south-east Austria, a 21-year-old Който беше изнемощял от учебно заведение три години по-рано, влезе в гимназията Dreierschützengasse в Грац в 09:43 и простреля девет възпитаници и преподавател с револвер Glock 19 и изстреляна пушка. violence.
Austria has never seen a school attack on this scale, but the French stabbing took place during a government programme aimed at tackling the growth in knife crime.
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