Heartlessly killed four children with an ax in Brazil

Brazil this Wednesday he experienced a new school tragedy, the second in ten days, sthe murder of four children in the hands of a 25-year-old man with a knife in a kindergarten in the city of Blumenau, in the south of the country.

The attacker, who surrendered to the authorities after the attack, injured at least three other minors, according to the police and firefighters.

Three boys and a girl under the age of seven were killed, according to local media.

The event occurred around 09:00 local time (12:00 GMT) at Kindergarten and Kindergarten Cantinho Bom Pastor, private center, where there were 40 children.

The attacker, whose identity is unknown, jumped over the school wall and started randomly attacking children with a small axe, according to the official version.

Allegedly when he saw the teacher’s reaction, he fled, jumping over the wall through which he entered and went to the Military Police headquarters to surrender. He has been silent since then.

WITHImone Aparecida, one of the educators told local television that she was warned by a colleague and that she locked a group of babies under her care in the bathroom so that they would not be seen by the attacker, who, according to her, went to the terrace with games, where some minors were making a circle conversations.

Brazilian authorities have opened an investigation to clarify the motives behind the attack.

The Blumenau Town Hall, peaceful municipality with about 400,000 inhabitants in State of Santa Catarina, Known as a place where German immigrants settled, it suspended classes from the public network during this Wednesday and Thursday, and recommended the same to private centers.

He Governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello, ordered an official three-day mourning period in the region.

Unanimous condemnation of rulers and politicians
Reactions to this new attack on the school came from all political circles in the country.

He President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvahe was among the first to speak out about this new tragedy, which he called “monstrosity”.

“There is no greater pain than a family that loses its children or grandchildren, especially in a violent act against innocent and helpless children,” the president wrote on his social networks, through which he also conveyed his “feelings and prayers” to the victims.

According to Lula, “for any human being who has Christian feelings, a tragedy like this is unacceptable” and “an absurd act of hatred and cowardice.”

The President of the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), deputy Gleisi Hoffmann, he called on Lula’s government to “urgently” create a plan to “curb hatred and violence in schools”.

Messages of condemnation and regret for that episode also came from the ranks of the opposition.

“How sad is this tragedy in the kindergarten in Blumenau. May God comfort the hearts of the families of the victims,” ​​said the senator. Flavio Bolsonaro, son of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.

Ciro Nogueira, also a senator and a close Bolsonaro ally, said he felt “a mixture of immense sadness and indignation”.

“I can’t even imagine the pain of these families. My wish is that God somehow comforts their hearts,” he added on his social networks.

history repeats itself
In recent months, there have been several attacks on schools in Brazil, with knives or firearms.

The attack in Blumenau comes ten days after another at a school in Sao Paulo, where a 13-year-old teenager stabbed a teacher to death and wounded four others – three teachers and a student.

Also, on November 25, a 16-year-old teenager killed four people in two consecutive attacks on two nearby schools in Aracruz, in the southeastern state of Espírito Santo.

Two months earlier, a man armed with a revolver and two knives stormed a civilian-military school and killed a disabled student in the northeastern state of Bahia.

Already on March 13, 2019, two former students entered a school in the city of Suzano, about 60 kilometers from Sao Paulo, killed five students and two workers, and injured a dozen of them, before both took their own lives.