He showed up at 8.40 in the morning at school, a Belgrade, in Serbia. He was armed with his father’s 9-caliber pistol with spare magazines and several Molotov cocktails. He was prepared to make a massacre, he had been organizing it for at least a month. 14-year-old Kosta Kecmanović opened fire, killing 9 people: 8 pupils and the caretaker. There are also serious injuries.
The boy was stopped and arrested in the schoolyard. He was himself a student of the Institute and, according to his testimony, had always behaved in an impeccable manner. According to the police, he had been planning the attack for at least a month, and had designed the institute’s classes with a list of people he wanted to hit, almost all born in 2009 like Kosta Kecmanović . It would have been the same boy who warned the police once the massacre was over.
In addition to the boy, his father was also arrested. “The weapons were legally held and were locked in a safe,” said Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic, “but, evidently, the son knew the combination.” The education minister instead confirmed that the boy had reported an episode of bullying, which occurred during a private acting class, not at school. Scenes of panic outside the school with parents and children in tears.
There had never been such a massacre in Serbia. THEThe country has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership is among the highest in Europe. There are many illegal ones still circulating from the wars of the nineties. In 2019, the BBC reports, it was estimated that there were 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia, the third highest in the world, behind the United States and Montenegro. This has rarely happened in Europe. There are cases in Russia. Dozens instead in the United States where weapons have become the leading cause of death among children and young people. Only in recent weeks have the stories of young people killed for wrongly ringing a bell or taking a driveway.
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