Sao Paulo.- A student died and another was wounded this Monday in an armed attack on a public school in Cambé, in the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil, official sources reported.
The Government of Paraná reported that the attacker, who was arrested, is a former student of the Professor Helena Kolody State College who entered the facilities of this public center under the pretext of requesting his school records.
“According to the initial information, there was an episode of violence, a student died and another student was shot and is hospitalized,” the state government reported in a statement.
After the attack, the governor of Paraná, Carlos Massa Ratinho Junior, declared official mourning for three days.
The Government links the attack to “hate” circulating on the internet
Brazil’s Justice Minister, Flávio Dino, on Monday attributed the death of a young woman in a shooting attack at a school in the southern state of Paraná to “the irresponsible proliferation of messages of violence and hate on the internet.”
Dino affirmed that this new attack “is news that impacts all Brazilian families”, because “it is violence manifesting itself again in a place that is more sacred for children and young people.”
The minister condemned “the uneasiness that afflicts families” for “this violence that was implanted in an unacceptable way” in the country.
He insisted that, to a large extent, it is due to the “hate messages” circulating on social networks and a “culture of weapons” promoted in recent years by the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).
Lula says that these attacks cannot be tolerated anymore
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Monday that violence in schools and in society itself “can no longer be tolerated” after a young woman was killed in a shooting attack at a school in the south of the country. .
“It is urgent to build together a path of peace in schools,” Lula said on his social networks after this new attack, which occurred at the Professor Helena Kolody State College, in the city of Cambé, and which was apparently committed by a former student of that institution, which also left another young man injured.
The attack is added to others registered between last March and April in educational centers, of which the most serious occurred in a nursery in the state of Santa Catarina, also in the south of the country, where a man killed four children with an ax .
Three months ago, when this wave of violence began in schools, the Ministry of Justice tightened the rules that govern the activity of Internet companies in the country, especially with regard to social networks.
Through this new regulation, Internet companies must be stricter with content, control the degree of “threat” and collaborate “immediately” with the Police in the “identification” of “dangerous” users, among other requirements.
One of the justifications for this hardening was the fact that some attacks on schools were related to the activity on the Internet of Nazi and neo-fascist groups that use social networks to promote violence.