A 14 year old student attacked this Wednesday with an axe two 9 year old girls in one Brazilian school located in the rural area of Farías Brito of the Carirí region, within the state of Ceará, in the northwest of the country. The attacker was arrested and tried for attempted murder.
Far from being an isolated incident, this episode lined up with the tragic event that a 25-year-old man took on April 5, when he killed four children aged between 4 and 7 with an ax in a kindergarten of Blumenau, State of Santa Catarina.
In the most recent case, the two 9-year-old victims, who are in fourth grade, were admitted to a hospital in Barbalha. One of them has been discharged, while the other continues in intensive care waiting to be operated on for a skull wound.
This was reported by Júnior Almeida, Secretary of Education of the Municipality lessons have been suspended for the next two days and that the attack took place in the afternoon during school hours, when the students were in their classrooms.
Governor Elmano de Freitas, traveling to China with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, lamented the attack on Twitter: “From my official mission to China, I have been following this unfortunate incident of violence that took place today in a municipal school in Farias Brito, in the Cariri region. Our government will have what it takes to support the municipality and the families”.
“The Ministry of Social Protection is working to provide psychological support to the families of the victims, to whom I express my solidarity for what happened. School is a place of learning and peace!” she concluded.
For his part, the Minister of Justice, Flávio Dino, explained in dialogue with the news channel GlobeNews that the National Secretariat of Consumers initiate procedures to determine the responsibility of social networks in the spread of threats.
If the platforms don’t remove illegal content, they could be suspended or shut down in Brazil, especially with US Twitter’s refusal to censor messages advocating school massacres.
“We have two paths that we will adopt simultaneously: on the one hand, administrative sanctions that can go as far as suspending the activity of the company. And, in the event of non-compliance, we could reach the limit that they stop working, ” he added. .
Antecedent in Brazil: A man shot dead four children in a nursery
A man who entered a nursery with an axe it killed four children on April 5 and injured at least four others on Wednesday in southern Brazil, authorities said. The victims are said to be between five and seven years old, according to local media.
The governor of the state of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello, confirmed the murders in the city of Blumenau on his Twitter account, writing that the killer has been arrested. Firefighters confirmed that the man attacked with an ax and that three children were taken to hospital.
“An individual entered the school with a knife and killed four children. There were also four injuries,” this source explained.
The perpetrator, a 25-year-old man, turned himself in at a military police headquarters, where he was detained, the force said in a statement.
The police confirmed the four deaths and other boys transferred to hospitals in the city to be treated. According to the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, the victims were three boys and a girl, all from between five and seven years.
The same source indicates that the assailant arrived on a motorcycle, climbed over a wall and picked his victims at random. When he saw the teachers rushing to protect the boys, the killer jumped over the wall again and ran away. He later gave himself up to the police.
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Source: Clarin
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