The attacker was disarmed and detained after about one hour, when he was talking with his father.
The tight security level imposed by the coming Winter Olympics in Russia even produced a reaction from the part of the President Vladimir Putin. He affirmed that a good cultural education should avoid such horrible things and concluded that actually the young Russians are suffering from a moral vacuum following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. A Committee investigative was formed in this case and a spokesman said as a first conclusion that the Moscow student probably suffered an “emotional breakdown.” Some suppositions are made about a possible revenge attack against the killed teacher. According to the aggressor’s words during the attack, he was prepared to die himself.
