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Shocked Finland mourns dead students, rethinks law
Finland mourned the dead of its second school shooting in less than a year, and questioned whether it was time to clamp down on private gun ownership.
matti-vanhanen
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The pupil who declared war
Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a student in the year above, came strolling along the corridor. The teenagers glanced at the familiar figure and carried on chatting. ”He walked towards us calmly and slowly … He lifted his arm. He pointed the gun at me and started shooting. The dude just pointed it at me and fired.”
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School shooting puts harsh focus on Finland gun policy
Finland’s gun laws are likely to attract criticism after an 18-year-old gunman shot dead seven children and a school principal on Wednesday. The shooter turned the gun on himself and died in hospital. About 56 of every 100 Finns own a gun, according to a study by the Graduate Institute of International Studies.
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Bar Mugabe from EU-Africa meet, say Nordic countries
Sweden and Finland on Thursday called for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to be excluded from a European Union-Africa summit in December but left open whether they would join a British boycott if he showed up. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen also said he had not decided whether to attend the summit in Lisbon if Mugabe came.
