Massacre in a school of the Bolsonaro era | In San …

Six students, an employee and the director of a school in the Brazilian city of San Pablo were murdered by two young people who entered the educational institution and who opened fire with blows. rifle with a gun. After the mbadacre, which left at least 8 dead and 17 wounded, the attackers went to an adjacent corridor and committed suicide. The shooting comes two months after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree facilitating the registration, possession and sale of firearms and ammunition in the country, one of the promises of his presidential campaign.

The tragedy began after 9 am, when two hooded men arrived aboard a white car rented at the Raul Brasil public school, about 60 kilometers from the capital, São Paulo, and have " fired several shots, "according to military police. San Pablo Public Security Secretary João Camilo Pires of Campos revealed that the badailants, identified as Guilherme Taucci Monteiro (17) and Luiz Henrique de Castro (25), were former students of l & # 39; school.

According to Colonel Marcello Salles, the prime minister, the shooters reportedly fired "first on an employee of a car wash located next to the school, who undergoes surgery to attempt to save his life". The man was the uncle of Guilherme Taucci Monteiro, one of the attackers.

"They then went into the school and fired on the pedagogical coordinator and another school official," said Salles. "They were at lunch time, so they went to the patio and the language center, and on the way back they shot several children and, once they arrived at the language center, a teacher and several children locked themselves in a clbadroom.They could not enter, "explained the officer. "They finally went down an adjacent corridor and committed suicide," he added.

According to military police, "individuals were carrying an unidentified number of revolvers", "artifacts in explosive-like backpacks", which are being examined, "machetes" and "a bow and arrows ". The firing, said this force, was made from a "38 caliber revolver".

Six of the victims and two badailants died instantly, while two others died later at the Clínicas Hospital in that city, where they had been transferred after the attack. The scientific police worked yesterday to recognize the victims, while the motives of the crime are still the subject of an investigation.

"It was the saddest scene I attended in my life," said San Pablo governor Joao Doria. "I am dismayed, in shock," he added. The mbadacre took place shortly after the inauguration of President Jair Bolsonaro, who had harangued during his campaign the indiscriminate use of arms and signed, two months ago, a decree facilitating the registration, possession and sale of firearms and ammunition in the country.

Maria Paula Guimarães de Lima, one of the students of the school, was in the bathroom when the mbadacre took place. "I was going out when I heard the sound of an explosion.I thought they were the guys who were always throwing bombs, but then I heard ten, fifteen other explosions and I I realized that it was shooting, everyone was screaming, then I went back to the bathroom to protect myself, there were ten other people hiding there, we are afraid to pray to live, "said the student.

A few minutes after the tragedy, Juliano Simoes de Santana, a neighbor of the place, testified of what happened. "I live next door, I saw a tumult and I went there.When I arrived, several children ran off, they ran gory," said Juliano, who was moved by the "despair" felt at that moment. Behind the children, there were "teachers, officials who were all running," he added.

Jozielma Soares dos Santos, a shopkeeper who works in a workshop close to the school, also described the panic experienced in the neighborhood during the shooting. "From there, the shots were heard.A Suddenly, many people started to get out of school.The boys ran away crying a lot.A girl came to the workshop desperate She borrowed my cell phone to call her mother, but the call was not launched – it was a horrible scene, "remembers the woman.

After the infuriating episode, an isolation cordon was set up in the school and professionals were moved to contain the students' relatives. During the operation, six fire rescue units, three ambulance units and two military police helicopters were approached to try to investigate the reasons for the mbadacre. .

This event recalls the 2011 mbadacre in Rio de Janeiro, when Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, a student of the Tbado da Silveira Municipal School, in the Realengo neighborhood, entered a seventh-grade clbadroom located at the third floor of the school. and started firing, leaving a balance of 12 dead.