Criminal suspicions | The woman went to school with a loaded gun and a fuel bottle – This is how the preliminary investigation material describes the events

23 years old a woman from Vaasa left her home in Vaasa in the morning in mid-March to drive to the yard of Isonkyrö school center. He had packed a loaded pistol, seven full magazines, a knife, a fuel bottle and a lighter in his backpack.

According to the prosecutor’s and the police’s understanding, on that Tuesday, the woman was about to carry out the school attack she had been planning for more than two years. However, something made her back down at the last moment. Instead of carrying out the attack, he drove back to Vaasa.

The police preliminary investigation revealed that the young woman had been exceptionally interested in school murders. He had been looking for reports and Wikipedia pages about the school deaths in Kauhajoki and Jokela, for example. The Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech shootings in the United States were also found in the woman’s search history.

In addition to the mass murders, the woman had in 2022 and 2023 searched for information on, among other things, how to make a Molotov cocktail and instructions for shooting. At the same time, he has filmed diary-like videos in which he talks about his plans, the end of which will be his death.

In videos recorded in February 2022, the woman says that she went to Jokela school, where “Pekka did his thing. It feels eerie,” the woman says in the video.

Days later, he has recorded a video in which he says that he has decided on the target, which is his old high school. He talks about the meanness of the teachers and how well he knows the school building. The woman said she was “looking forward” to the act.

He had later deleted these videos. Quotations from the Unabomber and the perpetrator of the Jokela school shooting have been found in the woman’s diary From Pekka-Eric Auviswhom the woman called “thinkers” in her police interrogation.

In 2023, the woman began writing versions of her manifesto. The text discusses, among other things, the state of nature, people’s self-centeredness, and the vices of the social media service Tiktok.

“Many things would not be worth saving if it came to that. I tried to like people, but then I realized that there was no reason for it,” the woman wrote in the text.

According to the manifesto, the woman was about to start a great war.

School strike the woman accused of planning is a firearms enthusiast and a sergeant who served in the army.

The woman had applied for and received a gun permit in the summer of 2023. After that, she got herself a CZ-model 9-millimeter pistol. The woman had filmed videos in which she shot at the shooting range with her own pistol and other weapons.

The woman added these training videos to a file sharing service, which she linked to her own Instagram profile on March 12 before leaving for school. In addition to the shooting range videos, he had added a manifesto he wrote online and a video where he spoke directly to the viewers. In the video, he talked about the mass removal of people and showed off his pistol.

An old army friend of the woman found the videos in a link uploaded to the woman’s profile around 11 o’clock on Tuesday. He immediately reported his discovery to the police, who started efforts to arrest the woman.

Clock At 10:52 a.m. a woman walked from the parking lot of Isonkyrö school center towards the school’s main entrance. Eight minutes later, the woman was recorded again on the school’s surveillance cameras, still walking in the school yard.

The woman said during the interrogation that she had thoughts of possibly harming herself. He couldn’t give a clear explanation as to why he drove half an hour to Isonkyrö school heavily armed.

However, the woman had a detailed plan saved on her phone, in which she had recorded the schedule for the school day and her own travel time. According to the note, the woman had five minutes to get ready after driving to school.

However, in the school yard, the woman says that she has changed her mind.

“I stopped for a moment and disappeared inside, and there were people passing by. And they were younger and they were my children. And that was the critical moment, that’s when I missed those people and I just thought, no, no, I don’t want any of that,” the woman told the police.

“I don’t want to cause anything, like fear, or I really don’t want to be in that area when I had that gun anyway.”

According to the preliminary investigation, the woman returned to the car and made an hour-long call to a man she thought was her boyfriend.

The man said in his interrogation that he had not wanted to be in contact with the woman for a long time, but was worried when she called in a panic. According to the man, the woman had only talked about harming herself, and the man had no information about planning an attack on other people or children.

Cops caught the woman in the parking lot in Vaasa shortly before 1 p.m. The gun in the woman’s backpack was still loaded. According to the police, the backpack smelled strongly of gasoline. The reason was found in a plastic bag with a fuel bottle inside.

The prosecutor demands the woman a maximum of seven years imprisonment. The prosecutor also demands that the woman be ordered to undergo a mental state examination. However, the accused objects to the examination of his state of mind.

The defendant’s defense denies the accusation of several preparations for a gross crime against life or health on the basis that he canceled his plans in the school yard and decided to act differently. The District Court of Ostrobothnia will hear the charges on Monday and Tuesday.