This Article is From Oct 18, 2018

Vladimir Putin Says Crimean School Shooting Result Of 'Globalisation'

An 18-year-old identified as Vladislav Roslyakov on Wednesday killed at least 20 students at a college in the Moscow-annexed peninsula before killing himself.

Vladimir Putin Says Crimean School Shooting Result Of 'Globalisation'

Authorities said they were working to establish the motive for the attack. (File)

Moscow:

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the mass school shooting in Crimea a day before 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.

"We're not creating healthy (internet) content for young people, which leads to tragedies of this kind," he said.

An 18-year-old identified as Vladislav Roslyakov on Wednesday killed at least 20 students at a college in the Moscow-annexed peninsula before killing himself.

More than 40 others were injured in what local press dubbed "Russia's Columbine", a reference to a 1999 US high school massacre.

Authorities said they were working to establish the motive for the attack.

An ex-girlfriend told Russian state media Roslyakov had spoken to her about taking revenge for being bullied at the school.

 

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