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German town in shock after school shootings
Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:29am EDT
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WINNENDEN, Germany (Reuters) - Weeping students placed flowers, candles and letters at their German school on Thursday, struggling to come to terms with a gun massacre that robbed them of nine class-mates and three of their teachers.
"I don't know if I can stay at this school. Every time you enter, the memories come back," said Christin Pluengel, one of many who streamed to Albertville secondary school in the town of Winnenden to pay tribute to those who died at the hands of 17-year-old student Tim Kretschmer.
"And it's worse if you knew the people that died and I did," Pluengel said.
Kretschmer, who had been under treatment for depression, killed 12 people in a shooting spree at the school Wednesday and went on to kill three more people outside the school before being cornered by police and killing himself.
He had warned a chatroom partner about his plans the night before the killings but that person had not taken him seriously, said Heribert Rech, interior minister of the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Residents of the usually sleepy town, set in Swabia's rolling hills in southern Germany, struggled to handle feelings of grief and guilt.
Many students stood silently, some shed tears and clutched the hands of friends and family members.
They brought white roses, bouquets of tulips, lit candles, and placed CDs, stuffed animals, cards and letters on a low wall beside the school.
Parents wrote on cards how thankful they were that it was not their children who had died and expressed sympathy to those who had not been so lucky.
But many asked just one question: "Why?."
FLASHBACKS
Pastors and psychiatrists have set up a makeshift counseling center nearby for those seeking help and comfort.
"Many are afraid that something like this could happen again," said Alexandra Winter, a female pastor trained in emergency psychological help.
She is one of some 30 counselors trying to help students and parents as they flock to the center for comfort and support.
"It's the flashbacks ... a door opens, a man comes in with a gun ... that image reappears every time someone opens a door to enter the room," Winter said, adding that many struggled with guilt as well as relief. Continued...
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