- Title: GERMANY: MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR VICTIMS OF SCHOOL SHOOTING.
- Date: 29th April 2002
- Summary: (W5) ERFURT CATHEDRAL, ERFURT, GERMANY (APRIL 29, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. MV/TV: MEMORIAL SERVICE, INCLUDING A MINUTE OF SILENCE IN ERFURT CATHEDRAL/ MOURNERS CROUCHED BY CANDLES (3 SHOTS) 0.11 2. GV: CANDLES ON FLOOR OF CATHEDRAL 0.14 3. MV/PAN: PAN OVER MOURNERS 0.26 4. TV: TOPSHOT OF MOURNERS 0.31 5. TV/PAN/ZOOM OUT: VARIOUS TOP VIEWS OF MOURNERS AND ALTAR (4 SHOTS) 1.11 (W5) JOHANN GUTENBERG SCHOOL, ERFURT, GERMANY (APRIL 29, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. GV/MV: CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF CHANCELLOR EDMUND STOIBER AND HEAD OF THE CDU ANGELA MERKEL LAYING A WREATH/ CUTWAY MOURNERS (4 SHOTS) 1.46 (W3) JOHANN GUTENBERG SCHOOL, ERFURT, GERMANY (APRIL 29, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 7. MV/CU: MAN ON HIS KNEES NEXT TO THE FLORAL TRIBUTES (2 SHOTS) 2.07 8. MCU: SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CHRISTIANE ALT (WOMAN IN LEATHER JACKET WITH HAIR TIED BACK FROM FACE) HUGGING PUPILS 2.18 9. CU: CLOSE UP OF FLORAL TRIBUTE WITH MESSAGE 2.23 10. MCU: TWO FEMALE PUPILS CRYING AND HUGGING ONE ANOTHER 2.34 11. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (German) MAYOR OF ERFURT, MANFRED RUGE, SAYING: "This stain will remain on Erfurt. Even in 50 years when one is talking about such crimes in schools one will refer to Erfurt. We will have to live with that." 2.45 12. MCU: WOMAN WIPING AWAY TEARS WITH TISSUE 2.52 13. MV: GIRL SITTING IN FRONT OF POLICE CORDON SMOKING A CIGARETTE 3.00 (W3) CITY HALL, ERFURT, GERMANY (APRIL 29, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 14. MCU: WOMAN CRYING AND HUGGING OTHER WOMAN 3.06 15. CU/PAN: TRIBUTE ON GROUND 3.16 16. MCU/GV/MV: VARIOUS OF PEOPLE FILING INTO THE CITY HALL/ WREATH (3 SHOTS) 3.38 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: ERFURT, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
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- Story Text: Following the mass shooting at a school in the German
city of Erfurt on Friday, pupils, their families and
politicians have gathered to pay their respects and begin
trauma counselling which is being offered at the city hall.
Memorial services have continued to take place
throughout Erfurt on Monday (April 29) following the rampage
of a teenage gunman through a local school which killed 16.
Robert Steinhaeuser shot 13 teachers, one policeman and
two pupils on Friday (April 26) at the Johann Gutenberg
school. He shot himself after a history teacher, Rainer Heise
managed to push him into an art room and locked the door on
him.
At Erfurt cathedral hundreds gathered in silence for a
candle-lit vigil.
A carpet of flowers and messages of sympathy continued to
grow outside the school, many of the tributes asking the
simple question "Why?". The candidate for the office of
Chancellor, Edmund Stoiber, and the Head of the CDU Angela
Merkel also laid wreathes outside the school.
As pupils and their parents try to come to terms with the
violence the city authorities have offered trauma counselling
at the city hall.
Churches in Erfurt offered special services of mourning on
Sunday (April 28).
The school will not re-open this term, but it is hoped
that some lessons will start again next week at another venue.
Crime has leaped back into the national spotlight and now
looks set to feature prominently in the campaign for
September's election, so far dominated by the economy and
immigration.
"This stain will remain on Erfurt. Even in 50 years when
one is talking about such crimes in schools one will refer to
Erfurt. We will have to live with that," said the city's
mayor, Manfred Ruge.
The killing also sparked criticism that teachers are not
trained to detect signs of desperation or impending violence
in their pupils, and that Germany's school system may simply
be too demanding.
There have been angry questions asked throughout the
nation about how a disgruntled teenager could legally obtain
the weapons and ammunition with which he murdered teachers,
students and a policeman.
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