GERMANY: PEOPLE CONTINUE TO PAY RESPECTS AT OF SCHOOL WHERE STUDENT GUNMAN KILLED SEVENTEEN PEOPLE

Record ID: 646937

  • Title: GERMANY: PEOPLE CONTINUE TO PAY RESPECTS AT OF SCHOOL WHERE STUDENT GUNMAN KILLED SEVENTEEN PEOPLE
  • Date: 28th April 2002
  • Summary: ERFURT, GERMANY (APRIL 27, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV SCHOOL VIEWS OF PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE OF JOHAN GUTENBERG SCHOOL WHERE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE; SLV FLOWERS PLACED IN FRONT OF SCHOOL; MV PEOPLE LOOKING AT FLOWERS; SCU YOUNG BOY LOOKING AT FLOWERS; MV YOUNG WOMAN AND YOUNG MAN PLACE FLOWERS (6 SHOTS) 0.33 2. SCU YOUNG WOMAN STANDING WITH OLDER WOMAN; MV PEOPLE LOOKING AT FLOWERS; SLV SCHOOL (5 SHOTS) 1.07 3. SLV CITY HALL /PAN DOWN TO LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING TO ENTER CITY HALL TO SIGN A BOOK OF CONDOLENCE 1.16 4. MV WOMAN HOLDING FLOWERS WAITING TO ENTER CITY HALL; SLV PEOPLE LINED UP/PHOTOGRAPH OF WOMAN, POSSIBLY A TEACHER, KILLED IN SHOOTING (3 SHOTS) 1.40 5. SCU YOUNG PEOPLE LIGHTING CANDLES; SCU WOMAN AND BOY PLACING FLOWERS (2 SHOTS) 1.56 6. SLV INTERIOR OF CITY HALL WITH PEOPLE SIGNING BOOK OF CONDOLENCES (5 SHOTS) 2.26 7. SCU SIGN READING: IN MEMORY OF THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN THE GUTENBERG SCHOOL ON APRIL 26, 2002 2.31 8. SCU WOMAN SIGNING BOOK/PAN TO BOY SIGNING BOOK 2.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2002 13:00
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  • Location: ERFURT, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA2A3TJQ5J5BTEA931EF5ZALVOV
  • Story Text: Dozens of people continue to gather and place flowers
    outside the school in Erfurt, Germany, where a teenaged gunmen
    slaughtered 16 people before shooting himself.

    Others have lined up outside the town's City Hall to sign a
    book of condolence for the victims.

    People, young and old, on Saturday (April 27, 2002) gathered
    in front of the Johann Gutenberg school in Erfurt, where a
    19-year-old failed student had shot dead 13 teachers, two
    pupils and a police officer before killing himself on Friday.

    The shock that has gripped country after the attack, which
    the national media have already started calling "Germany's
    September 11", was clear to see on many faces.

    Robert Steinhaeuser, the 19-year-old student who committed
    Germany's worst post-war massacre, was a member of a gun club
    and shot many of his 16 victims in the head from point-blank
    range, police said.

    Another 10 people injured in the attack are still in hospital.

    New details about the end of the ordeal emerged on
    Saturday. Police said a courageous teacher had pushed the
    gunman, Robert Steinhaeuser, into a room after a brief
    encounter in which the 19-year-old former student took off his
    mask.

    German television identified the teacher as Rainer Heise.

    In another part of the city, many people lined up outside
    the City Hall on Saturday to sign a book of condolences for
    the victims.


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