Pistorius after killing spree: put weapons acquisition to the test

Created: 01/28/2022, 10:26 am

Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD).

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Lower Saxony's Minister of the Interior, Boris Pistorius (SPD), called for stricter rules on the legal purchase of weapons after the killing spree in Heidelberg.

Before a meeting of federal and state interior ministers in Stuttgart on Friday, he said he was shocked why it was still so easy to get hold of weapons in Europe.

He finds that frightening, and we will have to talk about it.

Stuttgart - The illegal acquisition of weapons is one thing, but the legal acquisition of weapons must also be put to the test in order to prevent such acts in the future or at least make them more difficult.

An 18-year-old student shot other students several times in a Heidelberg lecture hall on Monday.

A 23-year-old student died as a result of a shot in the head, three other people were injured.

After the crime, the 18-year-old killed himself.

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The young man, who, like the victim, was studying biology in his first semester, bought three long guns in Austria about a week before the crime, police and prosecutors said.

The 18-year-old bought the two weapons used in the crime from an arms dealer and the third from a private individual.

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