ABSTRACT
On November 7, 2007, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen entered the Jokela high school in Tuusula, Finland and started shooting his fellow students and teachers, killing eight and shooting himself in the end. Before leaving to go to the school, he had uploaded an extensive media kit to the Internet, including photos and videos of himself as well as documents in which he explained his deed and philosophy. In a document called ‘‘Attack information,’’ he wrote:
Attack Type: Mass murder, political terrorism (although I choosed [sic] the school as target, my motives for the attack are political and much much deeper and therefore I don’t want this to be called only as ‘‘school shooting’’).1
