Winnenden, Germany Massacre Latest in Series of School Shootings

The shootings at the Albertville technical school in Winnenden, Germany are unfortunately only the latest in a series of incidents to hit educational institutions in recent years. Erfurt was the scene of Germany's worst such attack when, in 2002, 19-year-old Robert...

Jyväskylä College: Two Campuses Evacuated in Hoax Threats

TWO campuses in Jyväskylä in mid-south Finland have been the target of bomb threats causing mass evacutions on Monday, it has been revealed.   In the one and half weeks since the Kauhajoki outrage, there...

Kauhajoki: Police Release Victims Bodies to their Families

THE NATIONAL Bureau of Investigation of Finland have concluded their forensic autopsies and have released the bodies of the victims to their families.  In all, eleven died, including the assassin, Matti...

Kauhajoki Police Called to Take Gun Away From Saari...But He Was Out

KAUHAJOKI police have today revealed that police visited Saari's home the day after questioning him on Friday to confiscate his handgun and firearms licence...but Saari was out and so they went away.  Matti...

Swedish Boy, 15, Arrested in YouTube School Massacre Copycat Threat

A SWEDISH boy, 15, has been arrested in Orebro, Central Sweden after posting a vdioe on YouTube threatening to emulate the Finnish school massacres.   In the meantime, Finnish police have pleaded with the...

Kauhajoki: Gunman Pumped 200 Bullets into his Classmates

DETECTIVES have today revealed that Kauhajoki gunman Matti Saari, 22, fired up to two hundred shots during his killing spree at Kauhajoki vocational school, with one body at the autopsy showing it had twenty...

Kauhajoki Victims "Shot 20 Times Each"

IT has been revealed today that some of the vcitims of school gunman Matti Saari, 22, in Kauhajoki, West Finland, had been shot up to twenty times, say the police, and at close range.   Investigators are still trying to discover what triggered Saari to act when he did....

Kauhajoki: Memorial Service held Attended by Finnish Prime Minister

A touching memorial service has been held in Kauhajoki in memory of the ten victims who died at gunman Matti Saari's hand.  In attendance at the service was Tarja Halonen,  Finnish Prime Minister...

KAUHAJOKI: Police Release First Pictures of Horror Class Rooms

  The police in Kauhajoki have released the first pictures of the horror classrooms where the tragdey unfolded two days ago.  Police have also announced that all ten victims have now been identified from...

Kauhajoki: Finnish Childcare Structure to be Over Hauled

THE tragedy at Kauhajoki, following on so closely to that at Jokela, has caused Finnish authorites to look more closely at country's childcare structure.   A report just two months ago by the Mannerhein...

Saari and Auvinen "Played Battlefield 2" Together: Internet Killer Network Fear

MATTI Saari and Pekka-Eric Auvinen knew each other, it has been revealed.  They played internet games of Battlefield 2 together, as authorities fear that there is a whole internet network of violent copycat...

Pennsylvannia: Dillon Cossey Mom Bought Assault Rifle for Columbine Copycat Son

WARPED Michelle Cossey, 46, was today found guilty of supplying her bullied son, Dillon Cossey, 14, with lethal weapons.  The boy from Pennsylvannia had fantasies of re-enacting the Columbine massacres after...

Bomb threats and text messages spark panic in Finland

Finnish school students were experiencing panic today about bomb threats and mobile phone messages, fearing that copycat attacks would follow the latest school massacre at Kauhajoki vocational high school.It was...

Kauhajoki: Roger Boyes of the TIMES Strikes Back

ROGER Boyes is a journalist on the TIMES who caused a great controversy when he wrote a piece about the Finnish nature after the Jokela tragedy.  His article drew on folklore and sterotypcial myths.  The TIMESONLINE webpage was inundated with an astonishing weight...

Kauhajoki College Massacre: Saari's Army Career was Terminated Early

25th Sept 2008 AS more details come out about the gunman Matti Juhani Saari, 22, there appears to have been some pointers to his state of mind, apart from the video, which was disturbing enough for police to...

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