Matti Saari
Matti Saari
Saari in a photograph uploaded by him under the title "Wumpscut (2)"
on the day
of the shooting.
Matti Saari
One of the last images taken by Matti Saari, on the evening
before he shot and killed ten people in
Kauhajoki. This picture was
taken some hours after Saari had been interviewed by police in
connection
with other gun-related video images he had
posted up on
the Internet.
Matti Juhani Saari published his gun-related videos on the
YouTube videosharing site
among other places. He used the login name
of Wumpscut86, taken from a German
electro-industrial DJ and band.
These video clips are noticeably less threatening
than others found
elsewhere, in which Saari fired directly at the camera
and announced
"You will die next".
Matti Saari at a shooting range. Police
spoke to Saari after the shooting range
pictures were put on the web
but took no action as he had a gun licence.
(Photo: AFP/GETTY)
Saari declares in English "You will die next" in an Internet
video posted before the shooting.
Matti Saari
Matti Saari
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, a
city in Western Finland.
The charred classroom at the Kauhajoki where Matti Saari shot and
killed 10 people before burning
their bodies and turning the gun on
himself.
Shattered glass covers the floor in a hallway at the school after
the massacre.
A scene of the Kauhajoki vocational college campus a few hours
after the shooting.
A Sisu Pasi armoured vehicle near the scene of the shooting.
The murder weapon
The killings prompted the Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen,
to hold a government
press conference over the shootings. He said it
was "tragic day" for Finland.
