Emsdetten rampage

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The rampage in Emsdetten took place on November 20, 2006 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule in Emsdetten ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The 18-year-old Sebastian B., who mostly appeared on the Internet under the pseudonym ResistantX (as well as R_fuckin'_X ), entered the grounds of his former school at around 9:25 am, masked, shot at people and set off pipes, smoke and Incendiary bombs . He then killed himself. At least six people were injured by projectiles, one person by throwing a smoke grenade , and another 30 had to be treated for shock or smoke poisoning . The perpetrator's parents also suffered a shock.

Sequence of events

B. drove to his former school around 9:20 in the morning and entered the school grounds heavily armed . Due to a school break, many students and some teachers were in the schoolyards. On the way to a higher school playground, for example, a pipe bomb and a smoke grenade detonated and began to shoot at students who came towards him. He pelted a teacher who followed him with a smoke grenade and injured her face in the process. According to the report of a witness, he should also have shot in the direction of this teacher. Apparently, B. also shot at random students in the lower schoolyard. On his way to the school building, he fired several shots at students, injuring three of them. At the main entrance of the building, the perpetrator met his 16-year-old brother, who was also a student at the school. He told him to go home, then shot the school caretaker and seriously injured him. The school administration alerted the police at around 9:30 a.m.

In the school building itself, B. fired several shots at various groups of students, injuring three other students, some seriously. On the 2nd floor he set off at least one incendiary device , so that the upper part of the building was heavily fogged by smoke. This made it much more difficult for the first police officers to arrive at 9:34 a.m., and 16 police officers ultimately suffered smoke poisoning. Other explosions were also sensed inside the building. At around 9:58 a.m., a special task force arrived from Münster , which discovered B.'s body at 10:36 a.m. The perpetrator shot himself.

Since B. had attached explosive devices to his body , the dead could only be removed after the deployment of explosives specialists.

The exact number of people injured by gunshots is unclear, as the official report of the interior minister in the interior committee of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia stated six people with gunshot wounds, but seven people were listed in the description of the course of events (six students and the caretaker).

backgrounds

Perpetrator

According to the police, 18-year-old Sebastian B. came from an inconspicuous family background. He graduated from Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule in 2006 with the entrance qualification for a technical college and then worked as a temporary worker in a hardware store. In his free time he was engaged in violent computer games and video films as well as airsoft . During his school days, he was considered an eccentric and introverted loner who was bullied by his classmates and felt patronized by his teachers. Interior Minister Ingo Wolf declared on December 14, 2006 in front of the Interior Committee of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament : “The perpetrator felt consistently not understood and accepted, complained about [the] lack of prospects for which he felt in his private, but especially his school environment, since he started school responsible. ”B. had to repeat two classes.

From June 2006 he had his own website under the pseudonym ResistantX , on which he discussed the rampage at Columbine High School and other school shootings . He was also active in an internet forum about the Columbine rampage. On a fansite dedicated to one of the two dead Columbine perpetrators, he left a comment addressed to the perpetrator, which he ended with the farewell greeting "Cya" (meaning: "See you!"). On the morning of his rampage, he posted diary and video recordings in which he talked about his crime plan, as well as a farewell letter on the Internet and also sent the documents to various addressees by e-mail. However, the records were only discovered after he had already completed the deed. His website was immediately blocked by the police after the crime, but the content could still be accessed via the caches of search engines and was copied and redistributed by private individuals.

On July 4, 2006, B. had acquired a small gun license, which was withdrawn from him on July 23, 2006 after he pulled out a blank gun during an argument at an open-air festival . The police called in seized the weapon and a telescopic baton, which B. had also carried with him, and filed a criminal complaint. On the day of the rampage, B. was supposed to appear in court on this matter. According to Wolf, B. could have made his decision based on this incident and the prospect of not being allowed to own any more weapons.

Motivation to act

Vengeance is seen as the motive for the crime. In June 2004, B. reported in a self-help forum about his difficulties at school, his bullying experiences and the associated fear and announced that one day he would let out his pent-up anger and take revenge in a rampage. He expressed his desperation and asked for help. The forum moderators did not respond to his entry. The other readers recommended that he turn to an advice center, but otherwise reacted helplessly and helplessly. In a further entry from January 2006, B. announced that he was doing better, he was now in the 10th grade and that he thought he could do it.

From August 2006 B. began to keep a diary and to plan and prepare the act over several months. A list of “primary personal targets ” (death list) was also found, which he had crossed out again. His former school was the place he hated most, his "primary building goal". B. had created a map of his school for the first-person shooter Counter-Strike , with which he is said to have trained for the crime. As part of a criminological study, the map was analyzed and parallels to the course of events were shown.

According to the teaching staff, there was no evidence of an impending act of violence before the offense, but B. had announced his intention to revenge his classmates at the school graduation party, albeit without being specific.

Remedies

The perpetrator had two percussion weapons (a pistol and a rifle ) and a small-bore rifle . Both rifles were shortened at the barrel and sawed off at the stock . He also carried three pipe bombs and a knife on his body. Five more pipe bombs were found in his backpack. In the car he had left four more pipe bombs, three incendiary devices and a machete . A gas pistol, an airsoft gun , an air rifle and various chemicals were found in his parents' house .

The 18-year-old obtained the muzzle-loading handguns from an online arms dealer. The provider confirmed that B. had participated in three internet auctions in the two months prior to the crime and bought weapons. However, they were all weapons that can be freely acquired from the age of 18. The public prosecutor's office confirmed to the WDR that there was no investigation against the Internet provider. With regard to the single-shot small-bore rifle, the Münster public prosecutor announced on December 6, 2006 that it came from the estate of a family member of a 24-year-old man from the wider area of ​​B. The weapon had been exchanged for an airsoft rifle. The man was not aware that a crime was to be committed with her.

Reactions

politics

Lower Saxony's Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann announced a Federal Council initiative to ban computer games that glorify violence, and a controversial , public discussion about violence in computer games broke out . In contrast, the Federal Association of Computer Game Developers raised the charge that one only deals with the symptoms and not with the causes of such acts. The perpetrator's social environment had failed and the existing bans on weapons, ammunition and explosives had to be better monitored. Critics also considered a ban to make little sense, as games could easily be obtained via the Internet or from abroad. In Germany, computer games are approved by the self-control entertainment software (USK) for the appropriate age groups.

Rainer Wendt from the German Police Union pointed out that German schools had long become “a place of insecurity and fear”. Events like the one in Emsdetten could repeat themselves every day, society must finally devote itself to the causes of the violence.

North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Ingo Wolf had an “Internet watch” set up, where Internet users could draw the police's attention to information on the Internet about planned violent crimes or other crimes. The response to the project, however, fell far short of expectations. In addition, the police authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia were instructed to contact the schools and to advise on violence in the classroom, although there was already such cooperation between the police and schools. The North Rhine-Westphalian school minister Barbara Sommer promised to employ 50 school psychologists and announced a so-called "emergency folder" to train teachers in dealing with violence in the classroom. Both measures had not yet been implemented a year after the crime. The planned additional school psychologists were criticized by the state student council as "far too few".

Partly politicians was activism accused.

Arts and Culture

The Swedish playwright Lars Norén wrote the monologue November 20 with direct quotations from B's video films for the actress and performance artist Anne Tismer . He also directed the play in Berlin at Ballhaus Ost .

B. had quoted literally in a single exchange from a song of the music project Weena Morloch , later Weena Morloch dealt with the rampage in Emsdetten in the song Amok . The band Zanthropya Ex used a sample of a news report about the rampages in Emsdetten and Erfurt in their song Blutbad on the album Notlösung Kopf Schuss .

See also

literature

  • Benjamin Faust: "So that no one forgets me again!" - On the socio-psychological causes of school shootings using the example of the gunman Bastian B. [...] In: Free Association . tape 12 , no. 1 , 2009, p. 91-107 ( abstract [accessed December 4, 2015]).
  • Ines Geipel : The amok complex or the school of killing. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-94627-7 , pp. 123-165.
  • Christoph Szumelda, Yvonne Behling: The Columbine heirs: How Bastian B. chose suicide. W-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022326-6 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

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