(11 Jun 2025)
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Graz, Austria – 11 June 2025
1. Austrian president Alexander Van der Bellen and wife with candles
2. Wide of presidential couple laying candles
3. Close of president Van der Bellen
4. Mid of Van der Bellen laying flowers
5. Wide of Van der Bellen getting on stage
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Van der Bellen, Austrian president:
"It is unimaginable, and it is becoming harder to comprehend what happened here with every hour. But we want to know exactly what happened and why. Why did it happen? How for heaven’s sake could it happen that a 21-year-old made himself the master over life and death, and killed kids and teenagers at random.”
7. Various of crowd
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Van der Bellen, Austrian president:
“We will not forget you. It is our job now to do everything to support your bereaved – with everything we have at our disposal as a community. And it is the job of the politicians to clear up the circumstances of this bloody deed completely and without lingering doubts. So that we can do everything humanly possible to prevent such immeasurable suffering in the future – or at least minimize the likelihood.”
9. Wide of Van der Bellen on stage
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Alexander Van der Bellen, Austrian president:
“And yes – should we come to the conclusion that the Austrian gun laws must be changed, so we can have better security, then we will do that.”
11. Mid of crowd applauding
12. Wide of Van der Bellen and mayor leaving
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Anna-Lena Stegmüller, 23-years-old, university student:
"I’d sum it up like this – school is a safe space for us teachers, or it should be a safe space. And yesterday showed that unfortunately it’s not always like this. This is shocking as an aspiring teacher, when you spend so much time at school and all of a sudden it’s not just your work place but such a dangerous place.”
14. Mid of crowd
15. SOUNDBITE (German) Aden Alihodzic, 23-years-old, engineering student:
“It’s really heartbreaking to see what happened yesterday simply because you went to school here and indirectly have friends which lost family members there. And that’s why it’s important to be here today.”
16. Wide of Van der Bellen and crowd
STORYLINE:
Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen said Wednesday that Austrian gun laws might have to change following a school shooting in Graz.
Speaking at a memorial service for the victims Van der Bellend announced that “should we come to the conclusion that the Austrian gun laws must be changed, so we can have better security, then we will do that.”
"How on earth could it happen that a young person assumes the power over life and death, randomly killing children and teenagers," he added.
A 21-year-old former student opened fire inside his school in Austria’s second-biggest city Tuesday morning, killing 10 people, in what appeared to be the deadliest attack in Austria’s postwar history.
Nine students were killed — six girls and three boys aged between 14 and 17, one with Polish citizenship — as well as a teacher, police said. Another 11 people were wounded. The attacker killed himself in a bathroom at the BORG Dreierschützengasse school in Graz, officials said.
The shooting has triggered a debate about the country’s gun laws, which are among the more liberal in the European Union.
AP video shot by Philipp Jenne and Sasa Kavic
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