Kosta Kecmanovic Instagram - Serbia Mourns after Deadly School Shooting in Belgrade?

 

 

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Tragically common in the United States, such a scene is uncommon in Europe and has never been seen in Serbia. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/05/04/serbia-mourns-after-deadly-school-shooting-in-belgrade_6025348_4.html Kosta Kecmanovic, a Serbian boy who was 13 years old and lived in Belgrade, entered his school shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, and used a semi-automatic weapon to kill his history teacher and several of his classmates. He killed nine people. Eight were students, all of whom were born in 2009 or 2011. Additionally, he murdered the school's custodian, who unsuccessfully attempted to stop him. The Parisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the announcement earlier this evening that one of the victims was a French national.

Following his horrendous killing binge in two study halls, Kecmanovic called the police to hand himself over. The schoolyard was where he was detained. The inspirations of this understudy who was regarded in 2022 for his scholarly presentation are hazy. " Because he was different, everyone avoided him in his class," Aleksandar Vucic, the president of Serbia, said, referring to the beatings the student received in his drama school in 2021. In any case, the police estimated that this attack was well-planned. Veselin Milic, the head of the Belgrade police, provided an explanation. "The suspect had planned everything for months, and he had a list of victims with priority targets," he said. He showed the press plans and sketches that the attacker had made.