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Columbine killer 'God'
22/11/2006 22:32 - (SA)
Berlin - A German teen who stormed his former school with guns and bombs had venerated as "God" one of the gunmen in the 1999 Columbine shooting in the US, according to excerpts from his diary published on Wednesday.
Sebastian Bosse shot and injured four students and a janitor on Monday as he rampaged through a high school near the Dutch border, before killing himself with a shot in the face.
Bild newspaper published sections of Bosse's diary, which it said he scanned and e-mailed to friends hours before the attack. Police said the excerpts, which detailed his preparations for the attack, were authentic.
Eric Harris, one of the two teenagers who killed 12 Columbine students and a teacher before killing themselves, was "probably the most sensible boy that a crappy high school can offer. 'Eric Harris is God' "Eric Harris is God," Bosse wrote in an entry dated September 16.
"It is terrible how similar Eric was to me. I am the further development" of Harris, Bosse said. "I have learned from his mistakes, the bombs."
Like Harris and Dylan Klebold - who also wounded 23 people at the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado - Bosse was a guns-obsessed outsider who had armed himself with homemade bombs as well as sawed-off guns.
In other parallels, the assailants in both cases began their attacks outside the school buildings and ended them inside on an upper floor. Bosse, like Harris, had a penchant for computer shooting games and was 18 years old when he died.
On Friday, Bosse had written: "In three days, it will all be over! The people will lie dead on the school yard, the school will burn and my brains will be blown out!"
On the eve of the attack, he wrote that he was sad that what he was planning would distress his family, complained that he had never had a proper girlfriend - and hoped that other "outsiders" would "be like me: a Goddamn hero".
- AP
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