Rampage in Eching and Freising

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Business school in Freising on the day of the act, seen from Wippenhauser Strasse

The rampage in Eching and Freising took place on Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at the former workplace and school of 22-year-old Adam Labus. He killed three people and seriously injured another.

Sequence of events

In the morning, the Polish-born Labus, dressed in camouflaged military clothing, took a taxi to the company in Eching (Freising district) , which had given him notice shortly beforehand and where he had worked in contract bottling for a year and a half until he was supposedly fired for laziness. Once there, he killed the 38-year-old operations manager with a Yugoslav Tokarev TT-33 and a gas pistol and shot a 40-year-old foreman who died shortly afterwards from his injuries.

Then he took the same taxi to the business school in Freising , which he had attended, killed the headmaster and seriously injured a religion teacher. Meanwhile, he set off pipe bombs . Eventually Labus killed himself with pipe bombs, a hand grenade and a headshot.

The police were unable to recover the body because they suspected that there were other weapons or explosives in Labus' backpack . The body was eventually removed from the school by an demolition squad.

motive

Adam Labus, born in Zabrze in 1979 , moved with his family from Poland to Germany in 1988. He found it difficult to adapt to the new environment. He was noticed repeatedly by thefts of bicycles and had to deal with the police again and again. Labus was considered rebellious , cheeky and bad at school. Even years later, teachers remembered how Labus commented on his impending expulsion from business school in five words. He threatened the staff: “I'll shoot you all.” After his discharge from school, Labus was once in psychiatric treatment in 1995, when Labus had broken out of the Munich clinic. He later took part in a rehabilitation project on the North Sea in Denmark . Already in camouflage clothing at the time, Labus had tried to raid a gas station. Labus started collecting weapons and went to the Bundeswehr . There he was released early for stealing medicines.

As a motive, the investigators assumed revenge for a notice given just a few days before the act. The shooter had also been investigated for robbery and fraud.

Due to his appearance and his outfit, the Erding police could not initially rule out that Labus had sympathized with the neo-Nazi scene; a right-wing extremist sentiment is evident in the 22-year-old. However, the Upper Bavaria Police Headquarters stated that they had no evidence of right-wing radical activity by the perpetrator.

The Munich tabloid "tz" printed a letter signed with "Heil H ..." which Labus is said to have sent to a friend in October 1996.

Amok researcher Lothar Adler, medical director of the Ecumenical Hainich Clinic in Mühlhausen, diagnosed it as typical of an impulsive weary of life who was "psychosocially isolated and failed". The fact that the vengeful man not only killed his former employer but also wanted to punish the teaching staff years after leaving school does not surprise the experts: “For many, school is a time of mortification. This is how the school becomes a target. ”In the end, the police also started from this motive,“ everything looks like a campaign of revenge on its supposed enemies, said an investigator. The police ruled out a right-wing radical motive that was initially accepted. "

According to a report by Spiegel-Online, Labus wanted to register as a mercenary in Kosovo a few years earlier , but he was sent back to the Croatian border, intercepted by soldiers.

effect

In Freising Cathedral a place to commemorate candlelight procession and an ecumenical memorial service instead. Classes for the students of the business school started again that same week, but the school building remained closed due to the investigation. The young people switched to the directly adjacent technical college. This school was also indirectly affected by the rampage. Since it was not possible to say where the perpetrator was during the crime, appropriate containment measures were also taken here. However, when it turned out that the perpetrator was not there, she was sent to business school for a few days.

Bavaria's Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber (CSU) expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims on behalf of the entire cabinet. Otto Schily (SPD) announced that the “terrible event” was “not suitable to put the large number of legal gun owners into twilight”.

According to the Bavarian Ministry of Finance, six teachers claimed an accident at work after the rampage . According to the ministry, they were all in the school, but some did not find out about the attack until they left the building. These cases were all recognized as work accidents.

Four months later, the teacher, whom Labus actually wanted to shoot, received an anonymous death threat : "You can laugh again, we will hunt you, we will slaughter you," said the letter, which was signed with "Adam's heirs" .

Individual evidence

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  8. ↑ Klaus Brinkbäumer, Conny Neumann, Sven Röbel, Andreas Ulrich: ATTENTATE: The revenge of little Rambo . In: Der Spiegel . tape February 9 , 2002 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 27, 2018]).
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  10. ↑ APA / dpa via http://derstandard.at/873250/Polizei-onstr-Freisinger-Amoklaeufer-der-rechte-Szene-zu
  11. ↑ a b Police assign perpetrators to the scene on the right: Freising ran amok was a Nazi. In: RP Online. Retrieved May 22, 2015 .
  12. ^ Freising blood bath: A cold Coca-Cola between the death shots. In: Spiegel Online. February 19, 2002, accessed May 22, 2015 .
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