A teenager who attacked a school in Ufa told about his desire to scare his peers

A ninth-grader who attacked a school in Ufa with a toy machine gun and a knife admitted on February 3 that he did not want to harm anyone, but was only going to scare his peers and teachers.

"I didn't want [to cause harm]. <...> [I wanted] to scare," he said during the interrogation, footage of which was published by the Russian Interior Ministry in Bashkortostan on his Telegram channel.

In addition, the teenager admitted that he had been preparing this attack for several weeks.

A teenager armed with a pistol attacked a school in Ufa. What is known

An attack by a ninth-grader on a gymnasium was reported earlier that day. He brought a small kitchen knife and a toy machine gun to school. He fired several shots at a teacher, three classmates and detonated a firecracker. As a result of the incident, he was detained. The first Deputy Prime Minister of Bashkortostan, Ural Kilsenbayev, said there were no casualties in the attack.

Criminal cases have been opened on attempted murder and negligence after the shooting at an educational institution in Ufa. At the same time, a student at the school told Izvestia that the teenager had planned the attack in advance, and he had announced his intentions on social media at night.

According to the students of the school, the teenager who attacked the gymnasium rarely communicated with classmates. Ufa Mayor Ratmir Mavliev admitted that bullying by peers could have been the reason for the attack. The head of Bashkiria, Radiy Khabirov, warned that the gymnasium's management would be dismissed if the fact of bullying a student was confirmed.

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