The shooting of a school in the Austrian city of Graz has killed at least 10 people, marking the deadliest incident of their child in the country in recent decades. The tragedy has shocked Austria, where gun violence in educational settings is rare.
For public broadcasters ORF, four were recorded in four involving firearms in Austrian schools since 1993. Any, however, as a result of more than one confusion – except the culprit – so far.
In the last few decades, similar incidents in school or college campuses have taken place somewhere else in Europe, many of which made policy changes.
High profile school shooting in Europe
When a shooter killed 16 children in the age group of 5 and 6 in the city of Scottish in Dunblane in 1996, the UK government rapidly banned handgun’s personal ownership.
After massive firing in the 2000s, German MPs increased the age limit for gun -ownership and checked random space on gun owners to ensure that they were storing guns according to rules.
In 2002, a 19 -year -old student Robert Steinhoser set fire to the Erfart, killing 12 teachers, two students, a secretary and a policeman before he killed him. Seven years later, in the city of Winneden in Southern Germany, a 17 -year -old shot 15 students, teachers and passersby were killed inside and near their former school. Hey what was killed in a shoot-out with the police later.
In Serbia, the authorities introduced spot checks in gun owners’ homes and launched eight of the 13-youth boys to their fellow students and a security guard in May 2023 for unregistered firearms after a security guard at a primary school in the middle class Belgrade district in May 2023.
And in December the same year, a 24 -year -old student killed 14 people at a university in Prague, in which he was legally owned by a gun. The gunman was killed on the spot, possibly one of his bullets. According to reporting by the Associated Press, the Czech MPs are now in the process of tightening the firearm laws.
Shooting of school less than we
Genocide in schools or education settings in Europe is rare compared to the United States. Although no direct comparison data is available on schools, Research by government’s rockfeller institute This shows that the US has faced “public collective firing” compared to countries with levels of economic growth.
Except for state-proposed violence or organized terrorism cases, “at least a few victims have been defined by the New York-based think tank, involving some victims of random and/or a few victims for their symbolic value.
According to his research, between 2000 and 2022, 109 discoveries were recorded in the US, six in France, five in Germany, three in Finland and UK, two in Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland during the same period.
Criminologist Jason R. Silva wrote in a research blog for the institute last year, “While there is a crowd of factors contributing to the thesis, the study found that the US has a high rate of public shoots, at least restores with a high rate of civilian firefalls relative to the minimum restrictive firing and man oath countries,” Criminologist Jason R. Silva wrote in a research blog for the institute last year.
In the European Union, the central executive of the block Brussels have set minimum rules on owning and using guns In its 27 member states, which included Austria and Germany. National governments can choose to beef with difficult measures.
Although rates in Europe are different, the number of guns is much lower than in the US. According to small arms surveyIn 2017, the US had 100.5 citizens per 100.5 people in the US. The figure was 4.6 in England and Wales and 19.6 in France and Germany. The estimate for Austria was 30 by 30 people, while Serbia was the most ranked at 39.1 in Europe.
The deadly knife attacks, so children’s life claims in Europe
Although firing is rare in Europe, knife attacks are more common in schools. France has seen a thing of stabbing school in recent years, including a teaching assistant, which was stabbed by a student in Northeast France on Tuesday.
In October 2023, a man who was under supervision for suspected Islamist fanaticism, killed a teacher in a school he first attended the Northern French city ARRAS – according to reporting Le Monde Newspaper. And in a case that shocked France in 2020, 18 -year -old killed French teacher Samuel Patty outside his school near Paris.
In Britain, there were riots in many cities across the country last year, which was spread online about a 17 -year -old 17 -year -old, who stabbed three girls in a dance class in Southport.
And in Germany, state prosecutors accused a 17 -year -old man of murder after a knife attack in a high school in the city of Wupportal in February.
A 7 -year -old child was killed by a knife -ridden attacker and injured several others in a primary school in Croatian capital Zagreb last December, while a student and a teacher was stabbed in a secondary school in North Slovakia last January.
Correction, June 11, 2025: The first version of this article was given the wrong day of June 10, 2025, stabbed in a school in Northeast France. Now it has been fixed.
