The suspect arrested without resistance carried a Nazi symbol on his clothes during the shootings. He notably killed a teenager and made eleven injured.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
A shooting in two schools in Brazil, Aracruz, a city of 100,000 inhabitants of the State of Espirito Santo about 600 kilometers northeast of Rio de Janeiro, made, on Friday, November 25, at least three dead and eleven injured. Three teachers and an unrecognized age student are in serious condition, said the authorities.
The covered face and a swine cross on his camouflage clothes, the 16 -year -old attacker first introduced himself into the Primo Bitti school, a public and public secondary school that he had left in June, According to investigators. After crossing the portal located at the rear of the establishment, he went to the teachers’ room and opened fire on several teachers, killing two people and injuring nine others, explained the authorities.
The video surveillance images broadcast by the media show the young man entering the school with a weapon in hand, while several people flee in his wake. We see him pulling a few shots, without stopping.
He then went, not far from there, to the Praia de Coqueiral education center, a private school, where he killed a teenager and injured two people. He was arrested at his home a few hours after the facts and, with the cooperation of the parents, went without offering resistance.
weapons that belong to his police father
The two weapons he used belong to his father, a police officer, and one of them was his service weapon, said the authorities. They investigate if the young man, who was under “psychiatric treatment”, had links with one or more extremist groups.
“He had no specific target” when he opened fire, said civil police commissioner Joao Francisco Filho at a press conference, but he was preparing the attack for “two years “, to him.
The governor of the State of Espirito Santo (south-eastern Brazil), Renato Casagrande, decreed three days of mourning. The president elected Lula described this killing as “absurd tragedy” on Twitter . “I express my solidarity to the relatives of the victims and I support the governor for an investigation,” said the left leader who will take office on 1 er January.
explosion Licens of possession of firearms under Jair Bolsonaro
Lula has campaigned against the spectacular explosion of possession and firearms permits under the mandate of the outgoing far -right president Jair Bolsonaro since January 2019. “The firearms policy must be reviewed “, Tweeted Senator Wellington Dias, an ally of Lula.
According to the NGO Brazilian Forum of Public Security, there are approximately 4.4 million weapons held by individuals in this country of 215 million inhabitants.
The shootings in schools remain relatively rare in Brazil, however, a huge country, which is however violent. The deadliest took place on April 7, 2011, when a 24 -year -old man opened fire in his former school in the western suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, killing twelve students, before committing suicide. More recently, on March 13, 2019, two former students killed eight people and injured eleven others before killing themselves in a college in Suzano, in the Sao Paulo region.