Gunman was bullied
The teenager who killed at least 20 people and himself in a school massacre that has rocked Russian-annexed Crimea had spoken about taking revenge for bullying, his ex-girlfriend told Russian media yesterday as investigators rushed to establish the motives of the shooter.
"He would say that he lost trust in people when his classmates began humiliating him for not being like everyone else," a 15-year-old named as Zlata told the Kremlin-funded RT television of Vladislav Roslyakov.
The 18-year-old had spoken to her about taking revenge for this bullying, RT reported Zlata as saying.
"He didn't want to live" because of it, said the girl, who broke up with Roslyakov at an unspecified time before the killing.
Russian investigators and residents of the peninsula are looking to understand what motivated the killer and how he was able to carry out a massacre of this scale.
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said the mass school shooting was the result of "globalisation" and the continuation of an American trend.
"It's a result of globalisation. On social media, on the internet, we see that there is a whole community that has been created. Everything started with the tragic events in schools in the US," he said at a forum in Sochi.
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