Over the past 36 years, there have been 19 mass shootings in Europe and 400 people have died. Do you still remember these stories?

Over the past 36 years, more than 400 people have died in mass shootings in Europe. There have been at least 19 mass shootings in Europe since 1987, with the deadliest attacks occurring in Paris in November 2015, where 130 people died, and Norway in 2011, where 77 people died, according to Reuters.

The latest incident occurred on December 21, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic, when a 24-year-old student killed at least 15 people. at the Faculty of Arts. Charles University.

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1987, May – Belgium.
Michael Van Wijnendaele, who killed his relatives and was at large in the farming village of Bogaarden, south of Brussels, kills six more people and shoots himself to death when he is caught by authorities.

1987, August – England.
Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old gun fanatic, killed 16 people and injured 11 before committing suicide in the English town of Hungerford.

1989 July – France
A French farmer shot and killed 14 people, including members of his family, in the village of Luxol, near the Swiss border. The man injured in the shooting was taken into custody by authorities.

1995 September – France
A 16-year-old boy killed 16 people with a shotgun after an argument with his parents. As a result, the young man committed suicide. The crime occurred in the city of Quers.

1996, March – Scotland.
Thomas Hamilton enters a primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane and shoots dead 16 children and a teacher before committing suicide.

2002 April – Germany
Robert Steinhauser, 19, killed 16 people in Erfurt after declaring that he was not going to take a math test. The young man killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a policeman, and then committed suicide.

November 2007 – Finland
Pekka-Erik Auvinen shot and killed six classmates, the school nurse, the principal and committed suicide at Jokela High School near Helsinki.

2008 September – Finland
Student Matti Saari opened fire at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, northwestern Finland, killing nine students and a staff member before committing suicide.

March 2009 – Germany
A 17-year-old man kills nine students and three teachers at a school near Stuttgart, as well as another person at a clinic near the school. He was later killed in a shootout with police. Two bystanders were also killed, bringing the death toll to 16, including the shooter.

2010 June – England
Derrick Bird shoots people in towns in rural Cumbria. 12 people were killed and 11 were injured. Byrd also committed suicide.

2010 August – Slovakia
An armed man shot and killed six family members and another woman in the Slovak capital Bratislava before committing suicide. In addition to the seven deaths, 14 people were injured.

April 2011 – Netherlands
Tristan van der Vlies opens fire at the Ridderhof shopping center in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six people before committing suicide.

2011 July – Norway
Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people. First, a car bomb hit a government building in Oslo, killing eight people. He then shot dead 69 people, most of them teenagers, at a summer camp on the island run by the Labor Party’s youth wing.

November 2015 – France
In Paris, Islamist terrorists armed with pistols and bombs attacked the Bataclan music hall, six bars and restaurants, and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports stadium on the outskirts of the French capital. 130 people were killed, including 90 concertgoers at the Bataclan, and hundreds were injured.

2016 July – Germany
An 18-year-old German-Iranian man obsessed with mass murder kills at least nine people in Munich.

2023 March – Germany
In Hamburg, a gunman shot and killed six people and then committed suicide at a place of worship for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Eight more people were injured, including a seven-month pregnant woman who lost her daughter.

2023 May – Serbia
In one week, a 13-year-old boy shot and killed eight classmates and a school security guard in Belgrade. Two days later, a gunman killed eight people and wounded 14 more in a village near the Serbian capital. Two suspects have been detained.

December 2023 – Czech Republic
More than 15 people were killed by a student in a shooting at Charles University in Prague days before Christmas. Police said the shooter, an art college student, had been “disposed of.” The suspect’s father was found dead earlier that day.