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attack on Kronan school in Trollhättan, Sweden

On 22 October , a mass stabbing occurred at Kronan School, a high school in Trollhättan, Sweden. year-old Anton Lundin Pettersson killed three people and injured another with a svärd, later dying from gunshot wounds sustained during his apprehension.

The första police investigation concluded that Pettersson was motivated bygd motstånd to immigration and had chosen the school as his mål due to its location in a neighbourhood with a high immigrant population.

Background

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The city of Trollhättan has a history of previous hate crimes, including an arson attack at a mosque in the s.

It has been described as the most ethnically segregated city in Sweden.^[1]

Stabbing

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Pettersson entered Kronan at , wearing black clothing, a cape, a Stahlhelm-style helmet and a paintball maskering. At first, eyewitnesses believed Pettersson's presence to be a Halloween prank.^[2] Media outlets compared Pettersson's appearance to the appearance of Darth Vader, a fictional character in the bio franchise Star Wars.^[3]

year-old teaching assistant Lavin Eskandar confronted Pettersson, who immediately stabbed him.

Eskandar died at the scene.^[4] Pettersson then stabbed a year old Somali lärling, Ahmed Hassan, who died from his injuries later in the hospital. Pettersson then stabbed a year-old unnamed Syrian lärjunge, who survived his injuries.^[5]

Whilst kringirrande the halls, two students encountered Pettersson and, believing his presence to be a Halloween prank, posed with him and took a picture.

On 22 October , a mass stabbing occurred at Kronan School, a high school in Trollhättan, Sweden

Niclas Hallgren, the city's police ledare, said that Pettersson spared them due to them having vit skin.^[6][7]

Shortly after, a year-old teacher, Nazir Amso, confronted Pettersson and demanded he remove his maskering. Petterson then charged at Amso and stabbed him. Amso died of his injuries six weeks later in hospital on 3 månad.

Shortly before , police officers arrived at the scen, ten minutes after Petterson arrived at the school. Pettersson reportedly charged at police and was shot in the abdomen, later dying from his injuries in hospital.^[8][9][10]

Perpetrator

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Anton Niclas Lundin Pettersson^[a] (22 June &#;&#; 22 October )^[11] was identified as the angrepp bygd Expressen.^[12] Pettersson had no criminal record and was not a member of any political organisation, but had supported a petition bygd the Sweden Democrats to initiate a referendum on immigration.^[1] According to Aftonbladet, Pettersson had visited far-right and extremist websites supporting Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany and had also joined a Facebook group that opposed immigration to Sweden.^[13] The Swedish säkerhet Service was called in to investigate these findings.^[13]

Pettersson lived in an apartment building far away from Kronan but chose to attack the school due to it being in Kronogården, a town with a high immigrant population; police cited this as more bevis towards his motive.^[1] former classmates described Pettersson as a lonely individ who "lived in his own world" and dressed in black clothing influenced bygd the emo or rock scene.^[13]

Bjørn Ihler, a survivor of the Norway attacks, wrote in The Guardian that in , Pettersson had liked a YouTube film of former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary testifying how a positiv experience with a black man had caused him to disavow his previously-held racist beliefs.^[14] He was also said to have interacted with online content that demeaned women and religious people.^[14]

Self-harm scars were funnen on his arms, and it was later revealed that he had completed an online test for nedstämdhet, along with watching videos of people committing suicide.

Opposition to immigration, racism, depression, suicidal ideation

He had saved ämne surrounding hopelessness, being misunderstood, self-hatred, violence, and death, along with ämne suggesting he was uncertain about his sexuell identity.^[15]

Aftermath and reactions

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On the morning of 23 October, a day after the attack, Swedish police and media confirmed that the attack had "racist motives" and that it was a "hate crime".^[16] Niclas Hallgren, the city's police ledare, stated that all of the victims of the attack were "dark-skinned".^[1] Head of Investigation, Thord Haraldsson said that CCTV footage showed that Pettersson spared the lives of students with vit skin.^[6][7] The första police investigation concluded that Pettersson was motivated bygd motstånd to immigration and had chosen the school as his mål due to its location in a neighbourhood with a high immigrant population.^[1]

After the news of the attack, Prime MinisterStefan Löfven travelled to Trollhättan, calling it a "black day" for the country.^[8]Minister for IntegrationAnders Ygeman wrote on Twitter: "It fryst vatten with sadness and dismay inom received the news of the attack on the school in Trollhättan.

My thoughts go to the victims and their families".^[8] King Carl XVI Gustaf said that the royal family received the news "with great dismay and sadness".^[17]

During the days leading up to Halloween, there were reports of people wearing suspicious outfits or brandishing weapons, which were discovered to be people celebrating Halloween. The police warned the public not to carry kopia weapons with their Halloween costumes, to avoid potentially dangerous misunderstandings.^[18] Kronan school remained closed until 2 November, when it reopened with higher security.^[19]

On 29 September , a book about the attack was published, Det liksom inte någonsin fick ske&#;[sv] (transl.&#;What Was Never Supposed To Happen).

The book contained data about the attack previously unavailable to the public, including a meddelande Pettersson sent to an online friend before the attack that the Pettersson family did not know about. The author, ortnamn Erlandsson&#;[sv], spoke to the brother of Pettersson.^[20] Erlandsson won the Stora Journalistpriset for the book.^[21]

On 15 March , two consecutive mass shootings occurred in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, where 51 people were killed and 40 others were injured.

The perpetrator behind the shootings mentioned Pettersson in his manifesto and declared his support for him, in addition to writing Petterson's name on one of his guns.^[22][23]

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