Trollhättan school stabbing

On 22 October 2015, a mass stabbing happened at Kronan School, a high school in Trollhättan, Sweden when a 21-year-old man named Anton Lundin Pettersson killed three people and injured one other person with a sword before dying himself after being shot by police who had arrived at the school.

It is the second deadliest attack on a school in Swedish history and also the first attack on a school in Sweden where someone died since the Kungälv school shooting in 1961, where one person was killed and six other people were injured.

## Background 
There have been many hate crimes in city of Trollhättan, including an fire attack at a mosque in the 1990s. The news and media compared the way Pettersson was dressed to the way a character from the film series Star Wars, named Darth Vader dresses.

A 20-year-old teaching assistant named Lavin Eskandar walked up to Pettersson, who stabbed him. Eskandar died at the school. Pettersson then stabbed a 15-year old Somali student named Ahmed Hassan, who died from being stabbed in hospital. Pettersson then stabbed a 15-year-old Syrian student who was not named, who survived his injuries.

When he was walling through the school, two students walked up to Pettersson and because they thought he was there for a Halloween prank, they posed with him and took a picture. The police chief of the city named Niclas Hallgren, said that Pettersson didn’t kill them because they were white.

After that, a 42-year-old teacher named Nazir Amso, walked up to Pettersson and told him to remove his mask. Petterson ran at Amso and stabbed him. Amso died from being stabbed six weeks later in hospital on 3 December. Some time before, 10:16, police officers came to the school, ten minutes after Petterson came to the school. Pettersson ran at the police and he was shot in his abdomen, which he died from in hospital.

## Perpetrator 
**Anton Niclas Lundin Pettersson** (22 June 199422 October 2015) was the man who did the attack. Pettersson did not have a criminal record and he wasn’t a member of any political organisation, but he did support a petition by the Sweden Democrats to make a petition about immigration. The Swedish Security Service was called in to investigate the information.

## Aftermath and reactions 
On the morning of 23 October, one day after the attack, Swedish police and news said that the attack had "racist motives" and that it was a "hate crime". The city’s police chief named Niclas Hallgre said that all of the victims of the attack were "dark-skinned".

On the days getting closer to Halloween, there were reports of people wearing suspicous costumes or brandishing weapons, which were actually just people celebrating Halloween. The police told the public not to carry fake weapons with their Halloween costumes, to stop anyone from being confused. Kronan School was closed until 2 November, when it was opened with better security.

On 29 September 2017, the first book about the attack was published: *What Was Never Allowed To Happen: The Trollhättan School Attack* () The book had information about the attack that was not known to the public before, including a message Pettersson sent to an online friend before the attack. The author, , spoke to Petterson’s brother Erlandsson won the Stora Journalistpriset for the book.

On 25 March 2019, two consecutive mass shootings happened in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, where 51 people were killed and 40 pther people were injured. The perpetrator behind the shootings spoke about Pettersson in his manifesto and declared his support for him and also wrote Petterson's name on one of his guns.

## Related pages 
**Inspired attacks**
* Christchurch mosque shootings
* Eslöv school stabbing

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