Winnenden - Pupils in the German town of Winnenden resumed classes Monday, almost two weeks after a teenager killed 16 people in one of Germany's worst school shootings.
The regional schools' director Wolfgang Schiele declared that compulsory attendance resumed Monday, although the Albertville secondary school building, where the shooting took place, is to remain closed.
For the time being, classes for the school's 580 students are being held in community halls in and around Winnenden, until they can be assigned to other schools in the area.
Winnenden, Germany - Church bells rang out across the south-west German town of Winnenden on Saturday as a memorial service got under way for victims of the school shooting that left 16 dead.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Horst Koehler were among the congregation at the Roman Catholic church of St Karl Borromaeus (Charles Borromeo) where the service was held.
Winnenden, Germany - Experts on Tuesday continued to probe whether violent computer games influenced a teenage gunman who shot dead 15 people at his former school in the south-west of Germany last week.
A search of the youth's room turned up numerous computer games showing random killings and other violence, investigators said.
"Something was brewing there," said Heribert Rech, interior minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, where the March 11 shootings at the school in Winnenden took place.
Winnenden - Pupils in the German town of Winnenden resumed classes Monday, almost two weeks after a teenager killed 16 people in one of Germany's worst school shootings.
Winnenden, Germany - Church bells rang out across the south-west German town of Winnenden on Saturday as a memorial service got under way for victims of the school shooting that left 16 dead.
Winnenden, Germany - Experts on Tuesday continued to probe whether violent computer games influenced a teenage gunman who shot dead 15 people at his former school in the south-west of Germany last week.
