The worst mass shooting in Swedish history leaves the edge of the immigrant community

In the middle of a southern ceiling church, Sweden, Jakob Kasselia, Syrian Orthodox priest, was facing windows above his windows, and then down his hands. Adapted the gold cross hanging from the neck.

“Police said this man played alone,” the priest said. “But that hatred comes from somewhere.”

A member of Kasselia’s congregation, a member of the 29-year-old Salim IsKEF, was the first month of First school on Tuesday and the worst mass of the country’s history. Gunman killed 10 students at an adult learning center and then he.

Among the dead are Syria and Bosnians, according to residents and embassies of these countries, but the police police do not publicly provide the victim’s details publicly.

Kasselia described the IsKEF polite and thoughtful, the desire to support other members of the community. He came to Sweden with his mother and his sister, the priest said – Aleppo refugees, when his father was killed war. Iskef Sweden was studying Risbergska at school, the goal of the Tuesday attack.

“It was a good man,” the priest said. “He didn’t find a problem. He showed only a good will. He was a member of our community.”

After the attack, Kasselia sat with the Iskef family to comfort. Iskef was in charge and had to be married this summer. His fiancee limestone, 24 years old, was “very badly affected”, the priest said, and “Very difficult experience.”

In a Memorial Service of Oldegus, Thursday night, Elija broke and broken in tears and had to be taken from the church.

Since the filming was made, the lack of authorities has been striking. Thursday night, police had not yet confirmed the identity of the Army – the Swedish media have a 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, nor even details of its reasons or victims.

In a statement that has been issued early on Tuesday, less than 24 hours of attack, the police said the shooter was not motivated by any ideology. On Thursday, Anna Bergkvist, who carries out police investigation, backed the confirmation.

“Why did they say, I can’t comment,” said BBC. “We are studying different reasons and we will indicate that when we have it.”

Swedish police are often cautious when they are researching suspicious, but not having official information in recent days has felt fear and uncertainty among the communities of immigrants in recent days.

“We are receiving all our information from the media and I don’t know why,” Nour Afram said, 36, when Risbergska began the attack inside the school.

“We need more information,” he said. “We don’t know why he did it, why did he direct this school? Was it sick or something else?”

Afram came in to class when he heard that when people were shouting when he was shouting, he was so unbelievable. He thought of smiling at first.

“We started running and then I heard the guns,” he said. “Especially then tak tak tak – maybe ten shots. I was so scared as my heart stopped my chest.”

Afram, who immigrated from Syria to Christ, he said he was afraid to send his three children to school in Sweden.

Zaki Aydin, a 50-year-old Syrian Language Professor of Required, said he was first afraid for his young students, mostly in the Middle East. “We are foreigners, we have to be careful,” he said.

Aydin opened his classroom doors and the church building when he taught. “We’re closing now,” he said. “And I asked someone to stay away yesterday,” he didn’t know that he didn’t know anyone. “

One of the 18-year-old Gabriel school students, “he made a nightmare to come true,” he said for Orredo.

“The problem is that we don’t have reason, only speculation,” he said. “Many people are afraid to go to school my age, we feel that Sweden has become like America. Things you see on TV has happened here.”

In the absence of official news about the motion, the neighbors came from the killer that the killer was white as white and directed a great immigrant student.

Tomas Poletti Lundstrom, the University of Racism of Uppsala, lives a few minutes from the attack site and the police helicopter heard him flying home on Tuesday.

“You can really feel sensibly here, it affects everyone,” Lundstrom said. “We still don’t know the shooter motifs, but we live in a very racist time and school for many immigrants.”

Attacks at Risbergska “was the result of our society at the moment, how we talk about our politicians and how we talk,” he said.

“The government and the main opposition support anti-immigrant policies and use rhetoric against immigrants,” he added. “This happens when politicians speak the way they speak.”

At the entrance to the Risbergska School of Risbergsa, people stopped the flowers, light candles, or just to take the scene and take it on the scene. On the street, you can clearly see the concierge that the killer did the goalkeeper, which went to the classroom with a rifle.

They gathered candles and flowers and was a collection of flowers, the mayor of the city of John Johansson, the first minister and the king and queen, who did the official visit of the site again there. On the way to work on Thursday to pay for his respect.

“I hope the police will find soon,” Johansson said. “The city needs answers, our society needs answers and the victim’s families need to know why it happened.”

But it wasn’t time “before speculating or rush,” he said. “We don’t want to help among false rumors, so we hope you find the cops as soon as possible.”

Tony Estroem, a saluter from the Eskilkstun, 80 kilometers from Orebro, was also stopped by schools on Thursday morning. “This type of shooting, in a school, you read elsewhere, but not in Sweden,” he said.

“It’s a guy in Sweden, and maybe that’s better than the immigrant was in charge,” he added. “Of course, the event is awesome, but we don’t want to add more fuel to the fire.”

The police has given limited information about his research. They said that around 130 officers responded to a total shooting, and found a “hell” at the school. They think he played only Gunman.

Family members, former school friends and neighbors told the Swedish media to be converted to the Swedish years and may have undergone psychological problems.

There have been complaints about the manipulation of the case. Bojan Sosic Ambassador, also visited the film area, learned from neighbors among the dead Bosnians.

“It seems strange, to say the least, in terms of the citizens of the policies, respectively for foreign citizens,” he said.

Others, including members of the Syrian community, said the police were doing the right thing and hoping to learn soon. Kasselia, Syrian Orthodox priests said the wider community “doesn’t know what police think, but we trust that they have their own plan.”

Hundreds of people came to Kasselia’s church on Thursday night from Syria, Turkey, Iraq and other communities. A photo of Salim Iskef, one of the victims of the shooting, sat on the rail. Kids in the congregation were sang by the Hymns. Iskefen’s family, sitting in a Pew next to the front, were consumed for grief.

It is difficult to understand why the motif is known even when they know. Without this, it is even more confusing. A few hours before the start of the Memorial Service began, Kasselia was sitting in an empty church, trying to make sense.

“People die, of course. They are sick, they have an accident,” he said. “But this, how can we understand this to die in a school. We couldn’t dream it with that. We cannot describe it. Why?”

When the gun was a little comfort to listen to the gunman, Kasselia said. Left less anxiety of another attack.

“But this man had something in his heart, a kind of hatred, he gathered somewhere,” the priest said. “We cannot say that others are not.”

Additional report by Phelan Chatterjee. Photos from Joel Gunter.