Post by spaceflower on Nov 25, 2018 13:56:43 GMT
Ryan is a Canadian exchange student. He was living in a Swedish family and going to a Swedish school. On Monday the 5th the rumour started spreading among students in school. He himself was informed by someone from the Exchange Programme on Monday evening. Ryan was shocked. On Tuesday the school administration terminated his schooling but not due to the shooting rumours, the school said. But now the rumours really took off. They said that Ryan planned a school shooting on 15th and that this was the reason he was expelled from school. Now the rumours spread fast on social media. On the evening the 6th, worried parents called the headmaster.
On Wednesday the 7th, heavily armed police came storming into the family's apartment. The mother came out of the shower, Ryan was still sleeping. The police found no weapons. They interrogated Ryan, his host family, school administration and students at school. Then the police closed the investigation. No longer any suspicions of crime. Besides, the police found the starter of the rumour: another student in the school.
Ryan had trouble sleeping and felt let down. Nobody stood up for him (no other student I assume). "In Sweden, people seem even more afraid than in Canada to stick out from the group and have an opinion of their own."
He was to go to another school but then rumours started that he was going to shoot there instead. Rumours really have a life of their own. The host family say that they are afraid that this rumour will follow him whichever school he attends.
Some students have questioned Ryan's opinions about weapons. Ryan said that a teacher asked him to invent a story about "unexpected visitors". Ryan told a fictive story about how an armed burglar coming in the night and that he shot him. (There is a well known TV-commercial in Sweden about "an unexpected visit" which always ends in the visitor being invited to coffee, it is an ad for a coffee brand.)
Nobody has made a report of slander to the police. The headmaster says the responsible student will be given a written warning, that is all.
On Wednesday the 7th, heavily armed police came storming into the family's apartment. The mother came out of the shower, Ryan was still sleeping. The police found no weapons. They interrogated Ryan, his host family, school administration and students at school. Then the police closed the investigation. No longer any suspicions of crime. Besides, the police found the starter of the rumour: another student in the school.
Ryan had trouble sleeping and felt let down. Nobody stood up for him (no other student I assume). "In Sweden, people seem even more afraid than in Canada to stick out from the group and have an opinion of their own."
He was to go to another school but then rumours started that he was going to shoot there instead. Rumours really have a life of their own. The host family say that they are afraid that this rumour will follow him whichever school he attends.
Some students have questioned Ryan's opinions about weapons. Ryan said that a teacher asked him to invent a story about "unexpected visitors". Ryan told a fictive story about how an armed burglar coming in the night and that he shot him. (There is a well known TV-commercial in Sweden about "an unexpected visit" which always ends in the visitor being invited to coffee, it is an ad for a coffee brand.)
Nobody has made a report of slander to the police. The headmaster says the responsible student will be given a written warning, that is all.