(Belgrade) The Serbian teenager suspected of killing nine people, including eight students, in a shooting at an elementary school in Belgrade on Wednesday, had a detailed plan of the shooting and a list of the children targeted, a source said. Serbian police chief.
The 13-year-old suspect “ planned the shooting for a month, he made a list of the children he planned to kill ”, Veselin Milic, the Serbian capital’s police chief, told a press conference. .
In this shooting, which occurred in the morning in a primary school in the center of Belgrade, a guard of the establishment was also killed, and six other students were injured, two of them seriously, as well as a teacher, announced the authorities. .
The children killed are seven girls and one boy, all born in 2009, 2010 and 2011, Veselinovic said.
The incident caused a great shock in this Balkan country where this kind of violence is extremely rare in schools.
“The sketch looks like something out of a video game or a horror movie, which means he planned (the killing) in detail,” Milic said, adding that the plans had been discovered on a suspect’s work table.
The suspect was arrested in the schoolyard shortly after the shooting, according to the same source.
The police were first alerted by the deputy director of the school, then the assailant called the police himself, “two minutes later”. “ He said he shot several people in primary school ”, said Mr. Milic.
At the end of the morning, the president of the municipality of Vracar, Milan Nedeljkovic, had declared to the press that the guard of the establishment was dead and that several pupils and a history teacher were injured.
“ He wanted to prevent this tragedy and he died […] The tragedy would probably have been worse if this man had not stood in front of the boy who was shooting ”, added Mr. Nedeljkovic, in front of the school, according to images broadcast by national television (RTS). He added that the professor was in “serious condition”.
Shortly after the shooting, which occurred around 8:40 a.m. (2:40 a.m. EST), police cordoned off the perimeter around the school where numerous ambulances poured in to pick up the injured, as worried parents watched. were waiting for their children nearby, an AFP journalist reported.
Astrid Merlini, whose daughter was at school, said teachers moved quickly to hide the children during the shooting.
“When (my daughter) saw the security guard fall, she rushed back to her class. She got scared. She told her teacher that there was a shooting upstairs,” Merlini told AFP.
“ The teacher immediately took the children to safety, locking them in the classroom ”, she added.