2024-04-04 06:09:48
Young out-of-school boy hammered a Nigerian student and stabbed the school principal in the stomach
Scenes of horror often seen in the US unfolded at a school in Kypseli, where a young out-of-school student from Georgia stormed in and beat a Nigerian student with a hammer and stabbed the school’s principal in the abdomen, who rushed to stop the fight. It was a little after 8:30 on Tuesday morning and while the bell rang at the 41st Gymnasium, on Patmos Street, in Kypseli, for the students. The 19-year-old Georgian, oblivious to the security guard’s presence in the complex, burst into the school as another Marvel Thor, brandishing a hammer and armed with knives, looking for the 17-year-old Nigerian, with whom his brother had a falling out.
According to eyewitnesses of the bloody episode, the 19-year-old Georgian – student brother – when he spotted the Nigerian, attacked him and hit him on the head with a hammer. “He went straight to the Nigerian and he tried to defend himself. There is a pool of blood on the stairs. As far as we know, they were patched up a while ago.” “Today Georgian’s brother came to take revenge for his brother. He entered school normally, without anyone saying anything to him. The director didn’t understand anything and went to separate them” describe high school students who saw the wild scene. According to another student, no one came close to help and some were even chanting “beef” while others were recording the episode! The director immediately rushed to the scene. As described by eyewitnesses, “the student lost consciousness after the 19-year-old hit him with a hammer. The manager tried to see if the child was conscious, but it was in vain, because when the attacker reached him, he stabbed him.
There were panic scenes at the school. The teachers were surprised by the attack and scared, while the students called the police with their mobile phones. The teachers led the children into the classrooms, where they locked them, as initially no one knew the truant’s identity or his motivations and intentions. DIAS and Agios Panteleimons Police officers rushed to the school, who located and arrested the 19-year-old perpetrator in the basement of the school complex.
He is reported to have claimed that his motive was his brother’s fight with the Nigerian. Students report that last week the Georgian was waiting outside the school for the Nigerian and telling his classmates that “I want to kill him, him and his family”. A student and a principal are being treated at Gennimatas Hospital. The director is stable, has a left lateral abdominal injury and is being monitored closely. The student has a blunt force trauma to the head. The perpetrator with the case file against him was taken to the public prosecutor.
OLME: The effort to eliminate violence in schools is in vain
Regarding the bloody attack inside the school complex in the area of Kypseli, the vice-president of OLME Andreas Kargopoulos referred to the effort made by the educational community to eliminate violence in schools. As Andreas Kargopoulos mentioned, “there are other incidents, not so brutal, but they do exist. I repeat that it is a social, intense problem and we are trying, we are fighting in the schools, we are not going to solve it alone, as you understand” he said.
As the vice-president of OLME pointed out, there are hundreds of attacks on schools throughout Greece and that is why measures are needed to deal with the terrifying phenomenon. The vice-president of OLME Andreas Kargopoulos explained that the issue of violence is an issue outside the school, which enters the school and added: “Thousands of colleagues throughout Greece are really fighting with these increased problems and in areas that are more difficult, in order to be able to safeguard the smooth operation of the school. Educate these children. To offer to develop their personality in very adverse conditions”.
And he added: “Our mind is on both the student and the colleague. We hope they get well soon. It is not the only incident. We are fighting in schools in order to eliminate these phenomena, but also to contribute to the normal development of children.”
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