Croatia deals with school security issues In the after-effects of the mass shooting in Serbia, there were likewise 2 occurrences including school trainees in Croatia. On May 12, a student in the city of Bjelovar who declared to have actually drawn motivation from the shooting in Belgrade put together a ‘hit list’ consisting of the names of her schoolmates. The list presumably emerged on the popular social networks platform TikTok prior to being gotten rid of after the trainee was apprehended by the authorities. Issues stayed as it is possible that screenshots of the list may still be distributing independently amongst other trainees. The trainee was expelled from the school the exact same day. In another occurrence that happened on May 18 at the Dragutin Domjanic Elementary School in Gajnice in Zagreb, an eighth-grade young boy who had actually argued with a buddy supposedly took an image of a weapon and bullets at his house and shared it in a WhatsApp group. The school without delay got in touch with the cops, who supposedly talked to the young boy. The moms and dads sent out a message stating that the kid was under guidance in the house which everybody was safe, while the school stressed that trainees need to continue going to classes as typical since the general security of the school was being kept. Copycat shooting threatened in Bosnia In the wake of the mass shooting in Serbia, a boy in Bosnia and Herzegovina threatened a copycat event in the city of Bihac. The boy published a threatening message on Instagram, declaring to be preparing to stage a massacre at a school of economics. Cops apprehended him on charges of threatening security and terrorism. Reuters reported that he had a history of hazards and bullying on social networks which charges versus him were dropped in 2015 since he was too young to be prosecuted. A threatening video was flowed on social media, made by a male from the town of Banovici who stated he was going to devote a massacre in Bosnia and Herzegovina, connecting it to the current mass shooting in Serbia. Authorities from both nations collaborated to determine the private and avoid any possible violence. Events in Kosovo and North Macedonia In Kosovo, a deceptive post entitled “SERIOUS: The Moment When a 14-Year-Old Kills His Classmates in Serbia is Published” was released by the Sprint.al site. The post declared to include a video portraying the Belgrade school shooting. Examinations by BIRN Kosovo’s Kryptometer group exposed that the video was not recorded in Serbia, as declared, however in Mexico in 2017. In North Macedonia, a trainee from the Slavcho Stojmenski high school in Shtip published a threatening message on Instagram on May 11 and was consequently apprehended by the authorities. The intentions behind the trainee’s actions have actually not yet been revealed. Bosnia has actually been covered by Elma Selimovic and Aida Trepanić, Albania by Nensi Bogdani, North Macedonia by Bojan Stojkovski, Montenegro by Samir Kajosevic, Kosovo by Diedon Nixha, Croatia by Matej Augustin and Serbia by Bojan Perkov and Ninoslava Bogdanović of SHARE Foundation
Belgrade School Shooting Has Online Ripple Effect in Balkans
