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...

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....

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...

Kauhajoki Killer Rang Friend: "I Have Just Killed 10 People!"

A MAN calling himself "Rauno" has claimed in an interview with a Finnish Magazine 7 päivää (7 Days) that he was a close friend of Matti Saari, 18, and that the deranged misfit had RUNG HIM ON HIS MOBILE CELL PHONE after the killings to say, "I have jsut killed ten people"...

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...

Hope in Kauhajoki - Victim on Road to Recovery

A 21 year-old female student rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds to the head, is tonight said to be on the road to recovery after two operations.  The student at Kauhajoki School of Hospitality was believed shot by deranged gunman named as Matti Saari, 22, who...

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...

Finnish deaths spark gun law call

A day after the horrific school schooting in Finland, the seconf big attack in just a short time, politicians are questioning Finland's gun control policy. Finland's gun laws are among the most permissive in Europe. In fact, Finland has the highest level of gun ownership per...

YouTube Copycat High School Shootings - the New Social Statement?

MATTI Juhani Saari has one thing in common with Pekka Eric Auvinen, Jokela High School shooter, and the Virginia Tech murderer:  they were all ardent admirers of the Columbine shooters, misfits Klebold and...

Finnish School Shooter Left Two Notes, "I Hate Everybody, I Hate Mankind"

MATTI Juhani Saari, 22, a student at the Kauhajoki College of Hospitality, left two notes, a recent CNN broadcaster has revealed, in which he is alleged to have written "I hate everybody, I hate mankind."...

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