New details about the Graz school massacre!
After the bloody attack that took place at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, which resulted in the death of eleven people, Austrian police revealed that they found an unusable pipe bomb in the perpetrator's home, along with plans to carry out another attack using explosives.
The police announced via platform X on Wednesday that they also seized a handwritten farewell letter and a farewell video, but they confirmed that these materials do not provide any clear evidence of the motives for the crime.
The perpetrator, a 21-year-old Austrian man, attacked his former school and killed ten people, including six girls and three boys aged between 14 and 17, as well as a teacher who later died in the hospital from her injuries. He then ended his life by shooting himself. Among the victims was a girl of Polish nationality. Eleven other people aged between 15 and 26 were also injured, but their condition is stable.
The killer lived with his mother, who is separated from his father, in the Graz-Umgebung area. The police reported that the school where the massacre took place was not where he completed his education. The rumors about him being bullied have not been confirmed. The killer legally owned the two weapons used in the crime, which are a pistol and a hunting rifle. Authorities are currently examining all the seized evidence from a criminal perspective, while the criminal investigation office in Steiermark continues its intensive investigation into the circumstances of the incident.
Franz Ruf, the Director General of Public Security, stated that the process of reconstructing the crime sequence is ongoing, and the collected evidence is currently being analyzed. On Tuesday evening, the police received threats against another high school in Graz. Security measures were immediately reinforced, as Ruf noted that bomb threats in schools have become a concerning phenomenon recently.