Blacksburg (AsiaNews/Agencies) – There was “a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today. But you decided to spill my blood. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off”. 23 year old, South Korean Cho Seung-hui message is for the “rich brats” of Virginia Tech, against their “hedonistic needs” container in a video clip sent to Nbc, after he had killed two companions and before he killed a further 30.
From postal stamps police ascertained that the assassin sent the package to the television network moments after he opened fire for the first time. In the box, which was given over to the authorities today, there are 43 photographs, 28 video-clips and a manuscript of 23 pages.
In the images, the assai appears already armed and dressed in a semi military style. Even if investigators “have yet to establish exactly the content of the images”, it was immediately clear that a preparation of this nature required a lot of time. They have not even excluded that prescience of an accomplice to the crime.
In one of the videos, the young student appears gripping two handguns (perhaps the same used in the shooting spree, even if some believe they may be toy weapons) while he shouts at the camera : “Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats, All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfil your hedonistic needs. You had everything”.
Following the publishing of these material new details on the life of the young man emerged, whose family had escaped poverty in Seoul in 1992. authorities disclosed that more than a year before the massacre, Cho was accused of sending unwanted messages to two women, and was taken to a psychiatric hospital on a magistrate's orders and was pronounced a danger to himself. But he was released with orders to undergo outpatient treatment.
However this did not work. Referring to "martyrs like Eric and Dylan" - a reference to the teenage killers in the Columbine High massacre, Cho repeatedly suggests he was picked on or otherwise hurt by school companions, “You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenceless people”.
