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Antaletriangle
03-14-2009, 08:41 AM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5904434.ece

Is this a problem-reaction-solution scenario where suddenly there is a glut of "nefarious" behaviour by the populace planted by the dark alphabet/intelligence sector to enable a surrender of guns and other weapons to authorities,encouraging people to fear each other.
Just a thought...

Police may have averted another massacre as a series of hoax threats closed schools and spread fear across Germany yesterday.

Investigators in the town of Ennepetal, near Düsseldorf, discovered gunpowder, swords, knives and imitation weapons and airguns when they raided a teenager’s home.

The police, on alert after Wednesday’s school shootings, also discovered bomb-making instructions in the teenager’s bedroom in nearby Schwelm. There were reports that he had used school computers to download them.

The 17-year-old boy was detained after he allegedly threatened to blow up his school on April 20, the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday and the Columbine school shootings in America.

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The teenager was arrested at the Reichenbach secondary school during lessons on Thursday after he allegedly told fellow pupils that he would destroy the building ten years to the day after the Columbine deaths.

Police were alerted on Monday, two days before another 17-year-old, Tim Kretschmer, walked into the Albertville school in Winnenden and shot nine pupils and three teachers before killing three more people and then himself.

The Reichenbach pupil, who according to German media reports had been expelled from a previous school after threatening a teacher and had told a female classmate that he did not want to live to see his 18th birthday, denied that his remarks were anything more than a joke.

Police said that they were taking the threats seriously and that chemicals discovered at his home would have been enough to construct explosives.

The teenager was in psychiatric care last night. Michael Eckhardt, the mayor of Ennepetal, said that he was “happy and fortunate that this catastrophe has been averted”.

Elsewhere, a series of copycat threats of violence in other schools in the days since Kretschmer’s killing spree threatened to create panic in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

Officers with sniffer dogs searched a school in Ilsfeld, 20 miles from Winnenden, after a threat appeared on an internet chat room in the early hours of the morning.

In the northern state of Lower Saxony police arrested a 21-year-old man near the town of Soltau who posted an internet chat-room message saying: “I have a gun and I’m going to kill everybody.”

Peter Hoppe, a police spokesman, said that the man did not possess any weapons and claimed to have been joking. The arrests follow at least six hoax threats in Baden-Württemberg, the state where Winnenden lies, on Thursday. Yesterday an 18-year-old was also arrested after threatening a bloodbath at a school in the south of Holland.

Meanwhile, as police continued to search for a motive for Wednesday’s murders, the interior minister of Baden-Württemberg admitted that an internet message supposedly posted by Kretschmer was a hoax.

Officially, a police spokesman maintained that they were still investigating the authenticity of the post, in which Kretschmer supposedly said he was “fed up with this bloody life”, but Heribert Rech said that he now thought they had been fooled: “Some crazy person obviously put out this dreadful false message,” he told the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

In Winnenden, where hundreds of candles burnt outside the Albertville school gates, one teenage girl expressed frustration over the apparent hoax.

“It is bad that they said it was true if they didn’t know for sure,” she said. Far more widespread, however, was a growing antagonism towards the international media attention that has descended on the normally quiet town since Wednesday.

A community that was initially prepared to share its grief and shock has begun to close ranks, collectively asking to be left alone to come to terms with the events.

Winnender Zeitung, a local newspaper, ran an editorial calling on the media to respect Wednesday’s victims and said: “Enough is enough, dear colleagues. For two days now we have politely answered the questions and requests from papers and broadcasters from Canada and New Zealand. But the requests, especially from some of our German colleagues, are becoming insufferable.” It called on reporters to allow enough distance to enable the people to mourn.

Red Cross workers have opened counselling centres in the town and a hotline that was set up after the shootings has taken more than 1,000 calls. It was announced yesterday that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, would attend a memorial service in Winnenden on March 21.