Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 03/23/2005 | 17:25

El fenómeno de estudiantes solitarios, antisociales y "raros" que, aparentemente, sin motivo alguno disparan armas de fuego en contra de sus compañeros y maestros en los Estados Unidos continúa.

Jeff Weise, estudiante Chippewa de 15 años, es descrito como una persona solitaria, antisocial y pro Nazi. Una vez más la influencia (o el mal uso) de la música, el Internet y las presiones sociales "orillaron" a un estudiante estadounidense a disparar a sus compañeros, maestros, un guardia de seguridad, su abuelo y compañera sentimental, y por último suicidarse. Como en casos anteriores, Weise advirtió que haría algo semejante un día de estos, pero sus compañeros lo tomaron como un juego (y quien no).

El diario londiense The Independent publica dos artículos en donde se dan a conocer detalles de la díficil vida de Weise.

Indeed, the reports that have emerged contain the same almost cliched "clues" associated with previous school shootings - the loner who was teased by other pupils, the dark trench coat, the love of the music of Marilyn Manson, the apparent fascination with Nazism and Adolf Hitler, the sense of utter disconnection.

... In many other ways, the shootings at Red Lake were very different to those in suburban Colorado six years ago. Red Lake is one of the poorest reservations in the region, if not the entire nation - unemployment runs perhaps as high as 65 per cent, while more than half of its population lives below the poverty line.

And Weise was clearly a young man who found himself confronted by difficulties and challenges well outside of his control. Weise's father killed himself four years ago, his mother has been long confined to a nursing home having apparently suffered brain damage in a car accident.

The teenager was living with his grandfather and the man's girlfriend - the boy's "grandmother" - on the reservation 60 miles south of the Canadian border. He had recently been suspended from school and apparently believed police were investigating him over threats that had been received by the school authorities - threats he denied having made.