Tema destacado del Martes, 20. Noviembre 2007

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Alarming violence in European schools

These past few days, Germany has been in fear of becoming the theatre of a new shooting in a school because of alerts sounded in two different towns. A year ago, a schoolboy wounded 37 people in Emsdetten with a fire arm. More recently, a young man killed 9 people in a Finnish secondary school. Are Europe's youths in the grip of a new form of violence?

taz - Alemania

Ines Kappert notes that following the foiled school attack in Cologne "the usual explanations" are coming into play. Yet she adds that the reaction of both the police and the school was correct in many respects. "Teachers took the warnings of alarmed pupils seriously and the school management was aware that November 20, 2007 is the anniversary of the massacre at a school in Emsdetten. It realised that shootings at schools are part of a global phenomenon which seriously disturbed pupils like Rolf B. want to be part of - because they crave attention, because they want revenge and because they believe all other forms of communication have failed them." Nonetheless, Kappert criticises the fact that the student in question was sent home after questioning: "Sending violently disposed, disoriented youths on their way is certainly not the solution." (20/11/2007)

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La Voix du Luxembourg - Luxemburgo

"The phenomenon is not entirely new, but it is worrying: violence is increasing among Europe's school pupils, generating sombre dramas which, previously confined to American campuses, are now gaining the Old Continent", explains Laurent Moyse. "Violence is spreading more or less everywhere. We can no longer spend an evening in front of the television without seeing, even by chance, a fight, a shooting, a crime, or simply exceptionally violent verbal exchanges throughout a film without anyone being very bothered by so much venom flooding our little screens. ... After being exposed day and night to all the horrors humanity is capable of, we can only wonder if entertainment doesn't go hand in hand with disenchantment, to the extent of perverting weak minds, leading them to plan acts in real life that are as atrocious as they are unutterably disgraceful." (20/11/2007)

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The Malta Independent - Malta

"The Internet is undoubtedly fuelling two things", writes columnist Marisa Micallef. "One, this global mania to be famous which we can now all be by posting stuff about ourselves on the net. Secondly, and a lot darker, a need to stand out in whatever way. Most of us are not that talented after all. But most of us have an imagination, sometimes even a sick one.Those who are desperate for fame, notoriety, or just plain being noticed are posting all their fantasies on the net. And many of them are reasonably educated, are young people who can't be alone even for a minute it appears. The minute they are at home alone, or with parents downstairs they get into this unreal world where they can talk to anyone, have unreal relationships, relive their sickest fantasies? ... Who in real terms should we be more afraid of (depending on your point of view) as we live our daily lives, Osama Bin Laden or George Bush or the new so called friends we are msn-ing or perhaps even the geek upstairs or downstairs?" (19/11/2007)

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Europa Sur - España

Several teenagers have inflicted terrible physical abuse on one of their schoolmates in the outskirts of Malaga. The daily is concerned about the emergence of a new form of violence. "There are more and more youths who, though they have no economic problems, find a form of distraction in violence. Their material desires are immediately fulfilled and they are incapable of controlling their most primary impulses and respecting the basic rules of life in society. They feel superior and need to prove this superiority with physical domination. And this violence finds a multiplying effect in new technology that enables them to broadcast the humiliations they inflict on others. Hence the beatings filmed with mobile phones and shown on Internet. Facing this, parents must become more involved in the education of their children. And surveillance measures should also be applied to telephones and Internet use ... ." (20/11/2007)

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