As with adults

Gun ban for nine-year-old at Carinthian school

At an elementary school in Carinthia, there was more than just learning - after an incident involving a boy, the police imposed a comprehensive ban on entering the school and a ban on weapons, as they do for adult perpetrators of violence.

(Bild: Pressefoto Scharinger © Daniel Scharinger)

Threats and physical violence are no longer a rarity in Austria's schools. And it is also starting to happen in elementary school - in Carinthia, a young boy is said to be a problem case. He got the full force of the police: they banned the child from entering the school and banned him from carrying weapons! Did the court actually agree to this?

A weapons ban for a nine-year-old? That exists in Carinthia. After a problematic incident with a classmate, "direct administrative command and coercive power" was exercised against the primary school pupil, as it will later be called in the court file. What happened there?