School attacker's diary shows he admired Columbine attackers
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 today.
Sebastian Bosse shot and injured four students and a caretaker on Monday as he rampaged through a high school near the Dutch border, before killing himself.
Bild newspaper published sections of Bosse’s diary, which it said he scanned and emailed to friends hours before the attack.
Police said the excerpts, which detail his preparations for the attack, were authentic.
Eric Harris, one of the two teens 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,” 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.
Like the Columbine killers, Bosse was a guns-obsessed outsider who had armed himself with home-made bombs as well as sawed-off guns.
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!”
