Four people were killed - three children - when a French gunman went on a shooting rampage at a school in Montauban yesterday.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-N ... rike-again
It's the latest spate of school gun and bomb violence in the EU in the last 15 years. Just a few of the highlights:
- In 2009 10 children were injured when a gunman went on a rampage at nursery school in Lyon.
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2009/03/20/1301s466685.htm
- In 2009 16 children were massacred in Germany when a disgruntled student unloaded his small arsenal at his former school.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1236800 ... =googlewsj
- Also in 2009 French police arrested a student who was plotting a shoot-out at his Paris school.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7942777.stm
- In 2008 12 students in Finland were killed by a gun-toting student.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting
- In 2007 ten students in Finland were killed by a gun-wielding student.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting
- In 2007 two Swedish teens were arrested en route to school with guns where they planned to massacre their class.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosent ... atl=google
- 17 school children were killed in Erfurt, Germany, by a disaffected youth.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1953425.stm
- 3 people were killed in 2002 when a student blew up his school with pipe bombs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1953425.stm
- In 2001 a child in Stockholm was killed by one of his classmates who had brought a gun to school.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tP ... eden&hl=en
- A 2000 shooting in a German school left two dead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1953425.stm
- In 1999 two people at a school in Germany were stabbed to death by an armed student.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1953425.stm
- 13 children were killed in the UK in 1997 by a gun-toting maniac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre
The modern phenomenon of school shootings began with the Cologne Massacre in "west" Germany in 1964.
