Russian press agencies, citing the police, explain that “the reason for the shooting could be a family conflict”.
Le Monde with AFP
The facts took place on Tuesday, April 26, in a kindergarten of Olyiianovsk Oblast, in Western Russia. A man opened fire, killing two children and a teacher before committing suicide, announced at the France-Presse agency (AFP) Dmitry Kamal, spokesman for the regional authorities.
He said that the children likely had probably “between 3 and 6 years”, adding that the investigators were on site. According to the Russian news agencies, citing the police, “the reason for the shooting could be a family conflict”.
Sergei Morozov, MP and former Governor of the Region, on his side told the news agency Ria Novosti that a young teacher and two children, born in 2016 and 2018, had been killed. The Telegram Baza chain, known for its links with the security forces, reported that the man had entered the school at the time of the nap, armed with a shotgun.
Shootings tending to multiply
Deadly shootings, especially in schools, tend to become more numerous in Russia in recent years, to the point that the president, Vladimir Putin, alarmed, seeing a phenomenon imported from the United States and an effect perverts of globalization, which led him to harden the wearing legislation.
In September 2021, an 18-year-old had opened fire with a hunting rifle at the University of Perm, in the Urals, making six deaths and thirty wounded.
In May 2021, a 19-year-old man had shot in his old school, killing seven students and two teachers. The most murderer shooting goes back to October 2018, when a high school student had killed nineteen people before killing in a KERTCH high school, in the Annexed Peninsula of Crimea.