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Subject: Dutch "COWBOY" Fatally Shoots Teacher
From: Sordo
Date: 1/13/2004 5:50 PM Eastern Standard Time
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What is it with these Euros and their guns ?
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Dutch Prep Student Fatally Shoots Teacher

By TOBY STERLING
Associated Press Writer
January 13, 2004, 5:35 PM EST

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A high school student walked into his
school's crowded cafeteria Tuesday and shot an economics teacher
point-blank in the head, fatally wounding him.

The shooting came as a shock to many in this country, where gun
violence is rare.

The student, a 17-year-old with a reputation as a troublemaker,
reportedly had been punished for misbehavior a few days earlier.

He fled the scene but surrendered to police later Tuesday, police
spokesman Jan van der Braak said. His name was not released.

The victim, 49-year-old Hans van Wieren, was shot once in the
forehead. He was taken by helicopter to a hospital and died several
hours later, the Dutch state news agency NOS reported.

Van Wieren was also a city council member and the deputy principal of
Stevincollege, a school in the southwest part of The Hague.

A student who was in the cafeteria at the time said she first mistook
the gunshot for fireworks.

"I head people scream and thought it was a joke," said the student,
who would not give her name.

No one else was hurt, said police spokeswoman Dianna Wezenberg.

Counselors were summoned to talk with students. The school apparently
has a history of violence and students said police make frequent
visits.

"Fights are normal here, but not like this," said student Mohammed
Ouledle.

The shooting immediately set off a national debate about violence
against teachers and whether security measures are needed at schools.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said it was "unbelievable" that
such violence could happen in the Netherlands.

"Conflicts can arise, but you can't resolve them with weapons. And the
fact that a teacher should be the victim of a discontented student --
it's not right. You can't behave like this, you must not behave like
this," Balkenende said.

The Netherlands has stiff gun control laws, and violence involving
firearms is uncommon.

The country's first school shooting was in 1999, when a 17-year-old
youth wounded five people in the southern Dutch town of Veghel. He was
sentenced to five years in prison.







 




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