Russia: The gunman who killed 13 people at a school had the swastika on his shirt

The reasons that led an armed man to invade a school in Russia and kill 13 peopleamong them 7 children and wounding over 20. The man then killed himself.

The perpetrator is Artem Kazantsev, aged around 30 and a graduate of the particular school. “Currently the investigators are conducting an investigation at his residence and studying the personality of the perpetrator, his views and his surroundings. His possible relationship with neo-fascist views and with neo-Nazi ideology is also being checked,” the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The commission, which investigates serious crimes, said the gunman was wearing a balaclava. The Commission released a short video showing the body of the attacker lying on the floor of a classroom with furniture overturned and papers thrown on the floor. He was dressed in black and on his T-shirt was a red swastika in a circle reports APE-MPE, citing Reuters.

According to the Commission, the six adult victims of the perpetrator were teachers and security guards. The same img announced that 21 people, including 14 children, were injured.

Tass news agency, citing investigators, reported that the perpetrator brought two pistols and a large amount of ammunition.

Izhevsk, a city of almost 650,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Udmurt republic in the center of the Russian Federation, just west of the Ural mountain range, which separates European from Asian Russia. THE Russia it has been the scene of several bloody attacks on schools in recent years.

In May 2021, a teenage gunman killed seven children and two adults in the city of Kazan. In April 2022, a gunman killed two children and a teacher at a kindergarten in the Ulyanovsk region of central Russia and then killed himself.

Source: News Beast

You may also like