Attack on Belgrade schoolit lasted only 120 seconds, during which a 13-year-old boy fired 47 shots and killed 14 children, a security guard and a teacher. Eight of his colleagues and a bodyguard were killed. In his house, investigators found detailed plans for the massacre and a list of 16 children whom the boy wanted to kill, and the reason was extremely strange: some of his classmates studied better than him at school, writes the Serbian edition of the Telegraph.

In the apartment of Kosta K., born on July 30, 2009, the police found, among other things, a list with the names of 16 children, classmates from the comprehensive school named after Vladyslav Rybnikar in the central district of Vratsr, whom the boy allegedly wanted to give away. to kill

The Serbian publication telegraf.rs writes with reference to sources that the reason was extremely strange: it is assumed that some children were better than him in school and did not want them to stand out with their abilities.

The massacre lasted 120 seconds

Costa killed 7 girls and a boy and injured six more colleagues.

Investigators say the boy began planning the attack a month ago and planned all the details. On Wednesday, May 3, after two days of vacation, he went to school with a backpack containing two guns and 4 bottles of incendiary mixture. He took the gun from the safe of his father, a well-known radiologist in Belgrade. The child acquired shooting skills from the age of 12, went to the shooting range with his father.

In just 120 seconds, he shot 14 children, a security guard and a history teacher, writes telegraf.rs. It all happened between 8:40 and 8:42, and the guy fired 57 bullets.

The boy killed the school guard from 14 meters

According to the investigation, a 13-year-old boy killed a school guard from 14 meters.

He killed three girls in the corridor of the school, five classmates in the classroom on the first floor. All children born in 2009-2011.

After the attack, the boy jumped out of the school’s first-floor window and called the police. He announced that he had shot several people and described himself as a “psychopath who needs to calm down”.

Prosecutors also say that the boy familiarized himself with the Criminal Code of Serbia after learning that he would not be prosecuted because he was under 14, telegraf.rs writes.

Now he is hospitalized in a child and youth psychiatric clinic, and his father has been remanded in custody. The man was interrogated for three hours, he denied his guilt. According to the investigation, he taught his son to own a firearm by taking him to shootings, although such an activity is not appropriate for his age. Volodymyr K. is also accused of not securing his safe where he kept weapons and ammunition.

The prosecutor’s office ordered an examination of the boy’s mobile phone and computer.

Parents at Vladyslav Rybnikar Elementary School, where the attack took place, were told that children should return to classes on Wednesday, and many of them protested the decision.

Serbian authorities want to drastically reduce the number of people who own weapons

In another gun attack less than 48 hours after the first, a 21-year-old man killed eight people and wounded 14 near the town of Mladenovac in central Serbia. The police arrested the attacker and found several weapons and a lot of ammunition in his house.

In Serbia, with a population of 6.8 million, approximately 760,000 weapons are owned by approximately 400,000 people, one of the highest rates in the world.

The government in Belgrade wants to reduce that number to a maximum of 40,000.

Among the measures, it is envisaged to introduce a two-year moratorium on the issuance of licenses for the possession of any weapon, including hunting weapons.

Around 1,800 schools in Serbia had an increased preventive police presence on Monday, asking students and parents to report any security concerns.

The parliamentary opposition called a protest action under the slogan “Serbia against violence” on Monday afternoon, demanding new resignations of the government, then the minister of education, as well as other measures to prevent violence in the country.