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Massacre in Austria: The Ghost of Artur A., ​​the Shooting in “His” Classroom, and the Shadow of Bullying

2025-06-11 17:30:57Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Massacre in Austria: The Ghost of Artur A., ​​the Shooting in
Massacre in Austria

Guido Olimpio and Irene Soave - Corriere della Serra

His classmates, perhaps including his bullies, have never returned to the same classroom as before. It seems as if Artur A., ​​the killer who is considered Austria's most vicious murderer, never left that classroom. In fact, his massacre yesterday began precisely from this classroom, where he had attended high school, but which he never finished.

The first speculations circulating on social media and in the media — and which the police promise to “thoroughly verify” — describe the two years of high school of Artur A., ​​who died yesterday at the age of twenty-one after being “taken revenge” on him, as being ravaged by bullying. On the other hand, according to the first statements from the police, ideological motives for the massacre he committed yesterday seem to have already been ruled out. His mobile phone and computer still need to be checked. In the letter he left on the table in his room, in a suburb of Graz, he bids farewell to his parents; but “no other explanation can be derived from that short text, nor from the search of his room so far,” the police chief said at a press conference yesterday.

"A ghost," the Austrian newspaper Der Standard called him: he had no social media, unthinkable for a young man of his age. He had no criminal record and was known to local authorities only for two reasons: last year he had registered with a local employment center and had taken a course. And he had obtained a gun permit for a Glock he had recently purchased and for his rifle.

Not that in Austria, as many people are arguing these days, it is difficult to get one. Artur A., ​​like everyone else, had passed unnoticed through the two selection stages: a skills test and an interview. The entire procedure takes a maximum of two to three hours, and today the question is being asked whether this is a sufficient obstacle to prevent someone like Artur A. from getting his hands on a firearm.

The ease of access to weapons, among other things, is one of the most common components of school massacres, a "format" that we are used to seeing as Americans, but which is increasingly being repeated in Europe. Among the other components is the detail. yet to be verified, of the bullying he had experienced in his youth.

Experts, especially American ones, are divided on whether bullying and persecution can be considered the main motive for such massacres. Some see it as an important cause, others think that it is just one component among others (as is easy access to weapons or unidentified mental problems). Another point is that the perpetrators of these massacres often consider themselves victims of injustices, no matter how real they are, and they think that they have been wronged by others: school, society, the state. In some cases, online contacts have been discovered between the perpetrators of such attacks.

Finally, the suicide of the perpetrator is common: for some analysts, the violent act, in addition to targeting others, also has this as its ultimate objective, either by one's own hand or through the police. And this is most likely the case of Artur A., ​​who had left home early in the morning, with the farewell letter to his parents already written and left on the table.

"Perhaps this man was part of a destiny," it was said yesterday at one of the religious memorial services held in Graz, in the church of Sankt Vinzenz. "Perhaps he carried out a pre-ordained plan." Fate, revenge, madness: the investigations in the coming hours will reveal everything.


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