Tiroteio na Finlândia

Por que razão ocorrem tantos casos de tiroteio em escolas, não só nos Estados Unidos, mas também em países europeus. Será por causa do tal "bullying", que significa provocar, com assédio moral, um colega de escola? O padrão se repete: um massacre, e ao final, o autor se mata, ou tenta.

Aconteceu hoje, na Finlândia às 11 da manhã, horário local, mais uma vez. Um aluno, de 20 anos, da Kauhajoki Palvelualojen Oppilaitos vocational school (foto) de Kauhajoki, a 120 milhas da capital Helsinki. O rapaz atirou na própria cabeça, mas não morreu. A escola é pequena, tem apenas 200 alunos, e dez foram mortos hoje.

Mais duas coincidências: as autoridades acreditam que um vídeo no YouTbe tenha relação com o episódio, postado cinco dias antes, na mesma localidade, Jauhajoki. No vídeo, uma mensagem: "A vida toda é uma guerra, e dor. E você terá de lutar sozinho a sua guerra pessoal."

Em 7 de novembro de 2007, houve outro massacre em escola na cidade finlandesa de Jokela, quando o estudante Pekka-Eric Auvinen matou a tiros seis alunos, uma diretora, uma enfermeira e depois atirou na própria cabeça. Pekka, autodenominado "darwinista social" também havia postado um vídeo.

A semelhança com os EUA é que país também cultua a posse de armas de fogo. São 1,6 milhões de armas, só perdendo para os Estados Unidos e o Iêmen.

No vídeo, o psicopata dá dez tiros, recarrega a pistola, dá mais um, e diz: "You will die next" ("Você será o próximo a morrer")

At 11am the 20-year-old man stormed the Kauhajoki Palvelualojen Oppilaitos Vocational School (picture) in the town of Kauhajoki, 120 miles from Helsinki, in northwest Finland, firing "many shots", police said . After killing ten people,the gunman was later disarmed after he turned his gun on himself.

"He shot himself, but he's not dead. He's injured," Ari Paananen, a spokesman for the mayor, told AFP, amid conflicting reports suggesting that the shooter had killed himself. Finnish public broadcaster YLE reported that the shooter had killed himself after firing shots at police, but later changed its report to say he was receiving medical care.

The gunman is believed to be a student at the school, which has around 200 students, the STT news agency reported, adding that the building had been evacuated.

"Within a short space of time I heard several dozen rounds of shots, in other words it was an automatic pistol," school janitor Jukka Forsberg told Finnish broadcaster YLE. "I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning and one managed to escape out of the back door."

Finnish media said YouTube clips of a man firing a gun appeared to be linked to the shooting. In one of them, a young man wearing a leather jacket fires several shots in rapid succession with a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.

The posting was made five days before the shooting and the location was given as Kauhajoki. The posting included a message saying: "Whole life is war and whole life is pain. And you will fight alone in your personal war."

The shooting raised the spectre of the massacre at a Finnish high school in Jokela, north of Helsinki, less than a year ago.

On November 7, 2007, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen shot six students, the school's headmistress and a nurse before turning his gun on himself.

The gunman, who had posted footage foreshadowing the November 2007 massacre on video-sharing website YouTube, was a student at the school.

In the video, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, described himself as a "social Darwinist" who would "eliminate all who I see unfit".

The 2007 attack triggered a fierce debate about gun laws in the Nordic nation with deep-rooted traditions of hunting in the sub-Arctic wilderness.

With 1.6 million firearms in private hands, Finland is an anomaly in Europe, lagging behind only the US and Yemen in civilian gun ownership.

In the video, the psycho shoot ten times, reloads the pistol, shoots once again, and says: "You will die next".