The suspect “wore a black t-shirt with the Nazi symbolism and a hood,” said the Russian Federation Inquiry Committee, which specifies that “his identity is being established”.
Le Monde with AFP
A shooting broke out on Monday, September 26, in a school in Ijevsk on Monday, in the center of Russia, and left nine dead, including five children, said the investigators, who added that the shooter had committed suicide. “According to preliminary data, nine people died in this crime. Among them two security guards, two teachers and five minors,” said the Russian Federation Inquiry Committee, seeing the increase a previous assessment of six victims.
The suspect “wore a black t-shirt with the Nazi symbolism and a hood”, added the same source, adding that “his identity is being established”. “There are victims among children and wounded,” the governor of the region, Alexandre Bretchalov, visibly moved in a video published on Telegram, a little earlier. He was expressed in front of the school N o 88 of ijevsk. Behind him, you could see medical staff entering the building at the run.
According to him, “an unidentified person entered the school” before “killing the guard” and opening fire inside the establishment, especially on children. “The evacuation is completed” and “the whole perimeter is completed,” added Mr. Bretchalov in his video, adding that the Russian National Guard, the FSB security services and “the authorities responsible for the investigation “were already on site.
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earlier in the morning, the Russian interior ministry announced that “police [had] received a message concerning a shooting at the N o 88 school”. “The police immediately went there,” added this source.
ijevsk, a city of nearly 650,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Republic of Oudmourtie in the center of the country, just west of the Urals Massif, which marks the separation between European Russia and the Asian Russia. Formerly extremely rare, fatal shootings, especially in schools, have tended to become more numerous in Russia for a few years, to the point that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has alarmed it, seeing a phenomenon imported from the United States and A perverse effect of globalization.