Spain knew no school massacres such as occurred in the US. UU. until yesterday, when a 13 year old boy armed with a crossbow, dagger and apparently material to make a molotov bomb killed a teacher, wounded another teacher and two classmates at a school in Barcelona.
The course murderer, according to authorities, suffered a psychotic break and is under observation in the psychiatric unit of a local hospital.
The law states that any under 14 years can not be prosecuted for any crime. Therefore, the teenager, whose identity has not been revealed, will not go to jail and the government is responsible for rehabilitating at home or in a treatment center.
“Today is a day of mourning for the Catalan school and the country, “said Irene Rigau, Minister of Education of the autonomous region of Catalonia.
The incident occurred after 9 am, when the shortest burst into public secondary school Joan Fuster, located in Navas, middle-class neighborhood in Barcelona. There he was in the equivalent second high school.
According to witnesses, the slightest arrived an hour late to class and after the Spanish teacher to open the door, it attacked the crossbow and struck on the cheek.
Terror ensued in the classroom and child attacked with a knife to the daughter of the master, his classmate, 13. Then he left the room and went to the hall where he met Abel Martinez, a substitute teacher, 31, who was teaching social and went out to see why the screams. There, stabbed him in the chest. Martinez had been in the institution two weeks.
Later entered another room and wounded a 14-year-old faced him. Amid the confusion he fled and went to hide in one of the bathrooms. There he held one of the teachers. “It collapsed, hugged him and began to mourn as the child who is” the teacher David Jurado to El Periodico de Catalunya said.
The child said he heard voices and some of his colleagues confirmed that acting strangely; They also said that it was a normal teenager with a family without problems. However, several parents told which has long acted strangely. Rigau said that the child had no disciplinary proceedings and that their academic performance was average, although it had lost some subjects.
Experts explain that psychotic outbreaks in early adolescence are rare and occur at later stages. “An outbreak and need not lead to violence. These reactions are derived from other factors such as education, environment, emotional development and personality, “says psychologist Marc Garcés.
After a diagnosis of a psychiatric unit, will be the Directorate General of Child Care that decides the future of the child. For ruled mentally ill parents may lose custody.
From coincidental way, yesterday turned 16 years of the slaughter at Columbine High School in Colorado (EE. UU .). There two students killed 15 people and wounded 24.
Camilo Sixto Baquero
TIME
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