A man who stabbed a teacher to death at a German school wanted to turn the attack into a bloodbath, it has been reported
Florian K. (23) stormed into his old school in Ludwigshafen on Thursday morning and killed his former maths teacher Rudolf B. († 58) out of anger over bad grades.
The attacker admitted during initial interrogations that he had other teachers in mind as well – he wanted to kill them in the confusion from a fire alarm.
Florian K. lit a flare in the building, which was stamped out by a teacher. But the fire alarm still sounded – did the vicious killer set it off?
“The alarm suddenly went off. The teacher went out and locked the classroom door,” an eyewitness told BILD.
Florian K. first went into a small building at the school with a knife and flare gun, according to initial investigations. He killed his maths teacher there and then went into the main building.
The police were first called out to a fire before they then received the message that there was a man in the school building with a gun.
Was this a manoeuvre to distract the police?
What is clear is that Florian K. attacked further teachers in the confusion and shot at the headmaster with a flare gun, according to police reports.
Evidence suggests that he had planned the attack for a long time. He was obsessed with violence, according to German newspaper ‘Rhein-Zeitung’. He allegedly wrote “Gun sport and everything that has got to do with weapons” as his interest on a social network site.
He is a member of the groups 'Legal weapon owners' and 'Liberal weapon law'.
The 'Rhein-Zeitung' reported that in 2007, Florian K. uploaded an eight minute video glorifying a killing rampage in 2002 in Erfurt. Rap texts accompanied pictures of the police investigations.
He even stated his year of death on his internet profile – 2010.
The prosecution is based on his motives, and he will be investigated on suspicion of murder said Lothar Liebig, head of the Public Prosecution Service in Frankenthal.
On Friday the 23-year-old, who has previously never been convicted of any crimes, will appear before a bail judge.
The police have suggested that more anti-violence training in schools is needed, and the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) and an institution for education in Rhineland-Palatinate are discussing a better co-ordinated early warning system.
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