Status: 09.11.2023, 17:26 PM
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In a large-scale police operation at a school in Offenburg, a suspect has been arrested. © Christina Häußler/Einsatz-Report24/dpa
Shooting alarm at a school in southwestern Germany. A juvenile is arrested. He is said to have known his alleged victim. It has now died.
Offenburg - After the gun attack at a school in Offenburg, Baden, a student has died of his serious injuries. This was announced by the police in the evening.
The suspect was arrested, the police said.
The underage suspect, a German, is being forensically examined, investigators said. The motive for the attack is likely to be personal. As a police spokesman near the scene of the crime added, according to initial findings, there was a previous relationship between the alleged perpetrator and his victim. All students were supervised by psychologists.
9th Grade Assault
According to dpa information, the attack is said to have taken place in the suspect's 9th grade. An adult, who does not belong to the school, is said to have confronted the teenager - background to this is still unclear. The intervention was a fortunate circumstance - more could have happened. The alleged perpetrator had ammunition with him. In the 9th grade, students between the ages of 15 and 16 are usually taught.
According to the police, the school was largely cordoned off, it is located in the Nordstadt of the municipality in the Ortenau district. The officers spoke of a large-scale operation, according to police circles, a special task force (SEK) was also involved. Support also came from other precincts and police headquarters in the region. There is no explicit mention of a rampage, said a police spokesman.
Residents reported helicopters circling over the area for hours. Sirens of emergency vehicles wailed, there was a roadblock on a major traffic axis. Offenburg, with around 62,000 inhabitants, is an important transport and economic centre in the region, but life is otherwise rather tranquil.
Around 180 students initially had to stay in the classrooms, but were later able to leave them. The young people were initially cared for by specialist staff, but were then able to return to their parents, the police reported.
According to its own statements, the Waldbachschule is a special education and counselling centre with a focus on learning. Students are taught in 15 classes.
School building still cordoned off
Even hours after the crime, the school building was still cordoned off. The forensic technology was still in place, they said. Individual students are also still in school. There was an extraordinary amount of activity around the school grounds, where the Waldbach School is also located: parents picked up their children, young people were on the spot and looked at their mobile phones. Police officers made sure that only authorized people came near the school.
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A grandfather, who was picking up his two granddaughters from a nearby school, was visibly shaken. "Luckily, nothing happened to them," he says with tears in his eyes. A mother, whose child attends a kindergarten directly opposite the Waldbach School, said that the little ones had not noticed anything about the incident. She had been asked to pick up her child via the daycare app.
In the north-west hall at the north end of the school grounds, there was a contact point for students and parents. There was a great rush there. Many ambulances were nearby. Dpa