"We were afraid": On-site report after rampage in Graz school

Special unit Cobra forces are standing around the school, the area is cordoned off extensively. A young man with long hair approaches one of the police officers near the school: "I need to get to my brother, he was inside." The young man is sent to the ASKÖ hall in Graz-Eggenberg, where relatives can report, and where uninjured students have also been taken.

After School Shooting in Graz: Anger and Grief on Site

For the media, there is information near the school: A police spokesperson can only provide information in dribs and drabs, investigations are ongoing. The mayor of Graz, Elke Kahr (KPÖ), arrives at the parking lot where several people had already gathered. Previously, she was with the uninjured students, she is visibly affected: "It is important that everyone stays together now, that we have each other," she says in front of journalists.

Just a few meters from the school, Darsel Hasan runs the restaurant Calamar. The 42-year-old witnessed the police and rescue services arriving. "We quickly closed the door and waited inside. Of course, there was fear." Hasan has three children himself, they attend a different school. The man is at a loss for words: "It is a catastrophe." Outside the restaurant, a mother talks with two guests, her two sons stand beside her. "I picked them up quickly." She shakes her head: "It is inhuman. Whoever did this is not normal."

Not far from the school at the ASKÖ hall, there are two buses - inside are students who fled the school. Two men - apparently relatives - come out of the hall, holding each other's hands, tears in their eyes. A little further away, two students embrace, comforting each other. Meanwhile, two women from the crisis intervention team are calming a woman and a man who are apparently distraught and searching for someone. Often, despair is mixed with anger and grief.

(APA/Red.)

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