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Pekka-Erik Auvinen(Fin. Pekka Eric Auvinen; June 4 Tuusula - November 7 Tuusula) - Finnish mass murderer who massacred his school on November 7, 2007, after which he committed suicide.

Biography

Eric was born on June 4, 1989 in the small town of Tuusula, Finland. They named it after Pekka Yarbek Järvinen and Eric Clapton - rock performers. His father worked two jobs as a musician and a railway worker, his mother was a former municipal deputy. Eric also had a younger brother. On various websites, Pekka referred to himself as a "tool of natural selection" and considered himself superior to others. Pekka did well in school. But there he was remembered as quiet and shy. The police know that Auvinnen was often bullied at school, but he himself also often humiliated elementary school students. Pekka also hated gays and single parents, as well as couples in love. It is known that a year before the tragedy, Pekka took antidepressants, which may have influenced the massacre he committed.

Love on the Internet

Approximately 6 months before the Pekka shooting, Erik Auvinen met a girl on a dating site and the virtual love ended up unhappy when that girl traded him for another and left for another site just a week before the shooting. But that love, according to the stories of relatives, made him happy: he openly posted video confessions on YouTube.

Plan and purchase of a pistol

Police determined that Pekka had been planning the shooting since March 2007. He gave the name to the assassination "Central Strike". Eric acquired the pistol nineteen days before the crime he committed - he had the right to purchase weapons, as he was a member of the Helsinki Hunting Club and had no criminal record. With the help of the club's chairman, on October 19, 2007, Eric purchased a .22 Sig Sauer Mosquito, as well as about two hundred ammunition for it. Eric himself wanted to buy a 9mm Beretta, but the police refused to give him a license for this weapon, since he was under 21 years old.

Web manifest and computer content

The day before the shooting, Eric posted a homemade video on YouTube titled "Jokela school shooting - 11/7/2007" (now deleted) where he warned of the school being attacked. His film contained photographs of the school itself, Eric himself with guns, shooting practice, and excerpts from Harris and Klebold's amateur videos to the KMFDM song "Stray Bullet". On November 2, 2007, Eric posted a video showing him training to fire a pistol in the woods. Also in the "interests" on some sites, he wrote that he wants to leave a noticeable mark on the world and in general he is interested in the idea of ​​​​revolution, hatred of humanity, death, massacres, natural selection. In descriptions, Eric often wrote the following phrase: "I am ready to fight and die for my cause ...". Eric was a fan of the PC game Battlefield 2. Police discovered the video half an hour before the shooting began, but took no action. 4 hours after the end of the shooting, the video was removed from the site. Also, a large number of files were found on the shooter's computer - about 30 photographs of himself and 21 text files in English and Finnish. He also wrote in one of them that he came up with everything alone and that no one would blame others for what they had done. His suicide note began, "By the time you read this, I'll probably be dead already." A farewell video in English was also found on the computer, but for some reason, Eric did not post it on YouTube.

Shooting

November 7, 2007 at 11.40 am Erik Auvinen went to his lyceum. He carried a .22 pistol with him and fifteen 10-shot magazines with him. Auvinen opened fire on the students on the first floor. After killing and wounding several people, he went to the second floor, where he entered one of the classrooms and shot the people there, then he shot the director and the school nurse, as well as several students in the school corridor. For some time he walked along the corridors and urged students to destroy the school. After a brief discussion with the police, Auvinen went to the men's room, where he shot himself in the head around 12:24 p.m. At 13.53 he was found in a toilet in critical condition and unconscious. At 22.45 Eric died in the hospital. As a result of the shooting, 9 people were killed, including the attacker, and 12 more were injured. In total, Eric fired 106 shots.

When news agencies reported the tragic details around the world, it was already clear that this case was clearly different from the tragedy that occurred a few years ago in one of the American high schools.

When the 1999 Columbian high school massacre in which teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher, and then themselves, people asked, "How could they do this?" But Harris and Klebold were dead, and the investigators had to spend a lot of time, carefully analyzing all the facts, in order to understand the motive for the crime. (One of the most impressive facts was the inscription "Natural selection" on the T-shirt of one of the criminals on the day of the massacre).

Investigators of the Finnish tragedy after a few hours managed to find out what was on the mind of the murderer Pekka-Erik Auvinen who committed suicide. They were shocked when they found a video compiled by Pekka-Erik of the upcoming bloody performance, which he posted on the Internet on the YouTube portal. Auvinen's statements posted on YouTube (and other blogs on the Internet) helped to understand his beliefs (that is, what he believed before his death).

He believed that there is no Creator God and therefore no special purpose for human existence. Note that Auvinen's beliefs are based on the assumption that evolution is true:

• "I am a cynical existentialist, an anti-human humanist, an anti-social social Darwinist, a pragmatic idealist, and a god-like atheist"
• "Life is just a coincidence ... the result of a long process of evolution and many other factors, causes and effects"
• "There are no other universal laws other than the laws of nature and the laws of physics"
• "Evolution is both theory and fact, creationism is neither"
• “Religious people, your gods are nothing and they exist only in your imagination. Your slave morals mean nothing to me. I am both god and my devil own life»
• “What is the best thing in life? She ends. Although there are probably some other good things in life that are worth living for, but sometimes you lose them or they don’t get to you. ”
• “Trust no one ... but rely only on
• "I am the dictator of my own life"
• "HUMANITY IS OVERESTATED!". Human life is not sacred. People are just another species among other animal species, and the world exists not only for people. Death is not a tragedy, it happens all the time in nature between species. Not all human lives are important and not all people deserve to be saved. Sometimes I feel like no one really deserves to live at all."
• “Today, the process of natural selection is headed in a completely wrong direction. Modern human race betrayed not only her ancestors, but also future generations"
• "It's time to put the process of NATURAL SELECTION AND SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST on the right track!"
• “I cannot say that I belong to the same race as all THIS insignificant, arrogant and selfish humanity. Not! In my evolutionary development, I have moved a step higher.”
• “I am ready to fight and die for my beliefs. I, as the one who directs natural selection, will destroy all those whom I consider unsuitable, the shame of the human race and the failure of natural selection.
• “The sooner the human race is wiped off the face of the earth, the better… no one should be left alive. No mercy for the dregs of society"
• “I am the law, the judge and the executioner. There is no greater power than myself."

All of the above statements from Auvinen's statement are based on the idea that everything in the world began to exist on its own - that everything evolved. It turned out that the worldview of the killers from the school in Columbia were also based on this idea. This doctrine, which has a more official name " evolutionary theory", is doctrine taught to our children in schools and universities around the world. And as the situations in Finland and the USA show, the world is simply reaping the benefits of such “education”.

The faith of a person is still of great importance

This recent tragedy is no doubt another "troubling reminder" for those who say that the "controversy" over creation and evolution is only a scientific matter. But as the tragic events in Finnish high school and in the USA, what a person believes about their origin can be very destructive - and not only for their own lives, but also for the people around them.

“In my evolutionary development, I have moved a step higher,” said Pekka Erik-Auvinen

Since childhood, Harris, Klebold, and Auvinen have been taught that man is just an animal, and that death and violence are part and parcel of life. Indeed, from an evolutionary point of view, one could even say that death is something good, because if selection does not take place and death does not destroy the weak, man will not evolve. Therefore, in the eyes of those who want to apply Darwinian principles logically in the real world, death and violence become natural evolutionary mechanisms that have operated randomly over millions of years, creating modern forms life, including humans. Thus, when the theory of evolution is taught in schools and universities, society actually gives the student the "programming" that he needs to justify evolution (as he understands it) and "help the evolutionary process" - that is, simply remove some individual individuals from the gene pool. Sometimes the student himself may be one of these "individuals".

One person from Australia told a national forum on depression in society:

“... I think that some people are simply unable to fight, and this may sound a little harsh, but this is the essence of Darwin's theory - the theory of the survival of the fittest. Perhaps some of us are not meant to survive, perhaps the purpose of some is to kill ourselves…” and:

“In fact, there are too many people in the world. Perhaps it means survival of the fittest. Maybe some of us are just meant to give up and that will only help the human species."

These comments can be heard echoing in Auvinen's gaze. Both of these people, by their statements, say that the possible effect of what children are taught in school is not limited to exams, but may have lasting effects. If all this is applied to the described shootings of people, then the teaching of the theory of youth evolution in a Finnish high school and in the state of Columbia had such a strong influence on three young students that their lives are simply were destroyed. These tragedies also affected (with varying degrees and duration) the lives of their parents, the lives of other students, teachers, police officers, emergency and hospital staff, pastors and counselors, and even members of the government.

Obviously, the question of creationism and evolution is not "just a scientific question"! These massacres not only shattered lives, they directly destroyed, that is, they cut off the lives of 24 people. If you look at the situation from a purely practical point of view, then is this really the ideology that society would like to teach its children, and the consequences of which can so clearly be seen by everyone today?

Antidote

After the massacre in the American school, we came to the conclusion that the only way to neutralize the evolutionary "walking time bombs" in our society is to tell our children the true story of our origin, recorded in the Bible. This will enable young people (and older people) to understand that death is not a "natural evolutionary mechanism" but a consequence of sin. Moreover, people will be able to understand that God loved this world so much that He gave that “rescue kit” in the form of His Son Jesus Christ, Who died for our sins (see article good news!).

The Bible makes it clear that we are not bacteria that evolved, but the descendants of the first man and woman on earth, made in the image of God, and that because of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we know that our lives have meaning and purpose. History shows that people who love the Lord with all their minds, as written in Matthew 22:37, are not going to become murderers.

The girl sits on the cold and wet ground with a bouquet of red roses. She sits and looks, peers at the inscription on the monument. Tears have long dried, she no longer mourns for him, strength is over. Now she can only look and look, just think.
- Hi, Eric, how are you? - the voice trembles, the chest rises from tearless tantrums, the hand smoothly strokes the face of the monument. It's just an insensitive piece of stone, but now it seems so close and dear, the only thing left of Pekka-Eric and will always be with Avery. - I miss you, Eric. Went to see your mom recently, she feels good, takes her medicine, she even smiled, huh… How are you, Eric?

"Past. Our past."

Two people. They were born on the same day, in the same year, in the same seconds, minutes, hours. Fate, as it seemed to the parents-neighbors, who were stunned by such coincidences. The boy was named Pekka-Erik, in honor of Pekka Yarbek Järvinen and Eric Clapton - rock performers. The father of the family worked at two jobs - a musician and a railway worker, his mother was a former deputy of the municipality. The boy in the family and school was quiet and exemplary, his grades were above average on a scale, he was clean and clear of mind. But he considered himself completely different. Weapon of natural selection, arbiter of fate, god, rebel. The girl was named Avery. The name did not carry a hidden meaning or some kind of dedication to a famous person, the mother liked this name. The family lived in prosperity in the neighborhood of the Auvinens, everyone was with each other on friendly terms. Everything was always good.

From the age of ten, Eric began to show his thoughts about natural selection and survival, the futility of the human race. How could a child at that age be aware of something? Especially something like that? It turns out he could. But the guys were still comfortable with each other. Avery had already loved Pekka more than anything in all the years they'd known each other, but she didn't see that in Eric. Maybe strong affection, but not love, he just got used to it. Used to having her in his life, used to having her always by his side.

Hey Evs, do you think it would be cool to wipe out all of humanity and be left alone, just you and me, at the top of the food chain? Auvinen once asked, when sixteen-year-old teenagers were walking around Tuusula at night, drinking soda. This happened often. Quiet walks, soda, empty talk about nothing. However, such a point-blank question made Avery drop the metal can, spilling his drink.

I don’t know ... - the girl honestly admitted, looking down at the asphalt. Eric looked into her eyes, waiting for a reaction. She would have known then how much her words would affect the young man. - Do you want it that badly? Why don't people please you, Eric?

Damn, Evs, you amaze me. I told you many times! Humanity is overrated, people are just pathetic bastards who don't deserve to live. Should I explain to you again? - he laughed, from which his soul became somehow gloomy and deserted, quiet.

I'm a pathetic bastard too, I have no right to life either, Eric? the girl asked in a whisper with tears in her eyes, trying to find answers. It was no longer Pekka-Erik Auvinen, not that bright boy from childhood, not that time.

Avery, calm down now. We are made for each other, you know? I don’t know, I don’t want to say that this is love, I just feel that you are my person, even though this makes me look like people. It's destiny, Avery. - then his voice sounded convincing, so sincere, it was true. Not the one the girl wanted to hear, but hearing that from him was unbelievable.

Get out you stupid bitch! I said don't come near me you bastard! Who asked you to intervene?! Pekka yelled, violently pushing Avery against the wall. An outburst of rage, anger. And the girl didn’t do anything… The guy was squeezed by local school hooligans in the corner, scoffing and pouring water from the basins of cleaners. And he endured, just endured and accumulated rage and hatred in himself, which he was ready to splash out on all people in the Universe. Avery intervened, spraying the attackers with pepper liquid, after which they rushed off in an unknown direction, cursing Eric and Avery. The guy was angry. He was always furious after such attacks by the girl. He was considered even more a loser, a loser, unable to stand up for himself. Pekka always took out his anger on his girlfriend, but he never accepted force, limiting himself to only a push and a bunch of insults. At such moments, he did not understand that he could lose her, but she understood. So she didn't back down.

After such cases, the guy always called first in the evening, apologized and explained his behavior with excessive anger. He always spoke sincerely. At least he didn't lie to Avery.

Oddities on a larger scale began to happen to the young man already in 2007, when he became a member of the Helsinki Shooting Club. He was good with all types of firearms and always hit the target. With Evs alone, he often joked, regretting that these were not human heads. The girl was scared. It was frightening and disturbing. Something big was coming this year, something that kept the girl awake at night, disturbed her, and this something was a huge tragedy for everyone in the future.

Hey Evs, do you want to shoot with me sometime? - Eric often suggested to the girl.

You know, Eric, firearms have too much recoil, it'll just smash my wrists. she joked, trying not to bring up the topic of shooting, to which Pekka grinned mysteriously, nodding his head.

I hope you and I shoot a couple of hundred people one day.

The last straw of the girl's patience was the finds of Pekka-Eric's activities on the Internet. The search results were terrible. Murders, the guy's manifesto, which contained arguments about the meaning of humanity, its uselessness and how great it would be to get rid of everyone, that he is not like everyone else. Eric wasn't even afraid to die. He consciously wrote that he was ready to fight for his interests and elections himself, to the end, until his death.

The strange inclinations of the guy began to notice already the people around him. The guys at the school complained to the social worker about the threats of Auvinen, he threatened them with reprisal, execution. The social worker spoke to Avery very for a long time trying to force her to dissuade young man these thoughts, but Avery refused. She did not want to do something on someone else's orders. She did not want to cut off communication with Pekka. She tried to just be on the same wavelength with him as she had been all these years, but he had something to hide.

At the end of October, the young man suddenly began to devote a lot of time to Avery. He constantly invited me to practice shooting with him, simply invited me to go for a walk, treated the girl very nicely, leaving her various gifts. Pleasant little things in the form of new books, goodies, personal belongings of Pekka-Eric have already become a habit. He often gave her some parts of himself, whether it was a T-shirt or a player, and the girl could not find an explanation for this, but she thought that he had finally thawed out to her.

On the night of the seventh of November, somewhere at 03:42, the girl woke up phone call from a young man. She was very frightened, she thought that something had happened, but she heard only a quiet phrase:

I love you, Evs, I'm sorry for everything.

Eric, what happened? - the girl asked in shock, trying to rethink the words said by the guy.

I fucking love you. - insistently repeated the interlocutor in a raised tone. - I'm like all those bastards, Evs. I can feel, I feel drawn to you, I know it. It's fucking bothering me. You always loved me, always stood up for me, although I did not want to, I shouted and pushed you, but you continued to follow me. Human spawn like the others would have given up long ago, but you loved me for everything, for all my weirdness, and I chose to be with you because you don't look human.

These words made the girl's world turn upside down. Confession from Eric himself! She began to cry into the phone, sobbing nervously, to which the guy on the other end of the line cursed softly and asked her not to cry. The two of them talked almost all night about all sorts of trifles, nice things. He seemed to her at that moment so sincere. But was it true?

Listen, Evs, I have to go... See you at school, don't wait for me in the morning, I'll be late. - sharply said the guy, dropping the phone. Avery then did not betray this value and calmly went to bed, but in vain. If only she knew what would happen in a few hours. If only she knew that these were the last hours of her soul mate's life. It was late.

Hell on earth. Horrors, screams, panic of students, sounds of sirens and shots, pauses between reloading weapons, more shots. At about eleven in the morning, indiscriminate shots rang out at the school. At first, no one understood what was happening, they just sat in place and were perplexed, until the director of the public address system ordered everyone to barricade the doors. At this time, Avery was in the toilet and was horrified. There were no locks, no booths, and the instinct of self-preservation told him to run without looking back and find Pekka. Stop… A slow realization crept into my head. Shooting. Eric liked to shoot and threatened to be shot. Shot. He was fond of weapons and was a member of the shooting club. Shot. He said not to wait for him at the house, said that he would be late. Her legs immediately buckled, she fell somewhere near the sinks, breaking one and scratching herself with fragments. Tears and violent cries escaped from the girl. She screamed her name best friend, called him, but he did not go. All that could be heard were gunshots and screams. Shooter screams. Avery had already lost her voice and just ran out of the closet, trying to find Eric.

And the sounds of shooting had already subsided, the girl had lost track of time, but she distinctly heard a dull shot from the floor above, where the doctors had already fled. My heart suddenly sank very strongly, my breath caught. The feeling of something terrible covered the girl. She rushed to the men's room at all times, her legs seemed to lead her by themselves, she knew that He was there. Running inside, Avery stopped abruptly, her eyes automatically fell on the body of Eric, who was lying like a dead weight on the tile, a fresh pool of blood was slowly spreading near his head, a 22-caliber pistol lay nearby.

The heart sank, the mind did not want to think and realize what he saw. No, it's not Pekka-Erik Auvinen, no, it's not him, damn it! The girl, sobbing, threw herself on the shooter's chest, hugging his neck.

Eric! Open your eyes! Please don't leave like this! I love you Eric! - Avery fought in hysterics and sobs, not noticing how she was all dirty in the blood of her lover, and the doctors put them both on a stretcher, since no one could unhook the poor guy from the shooter. She rode with him to the hospital all the way, holding his hand, at one moment she felt a strong grip on Pekka's hand.

All day the doctors fought for the life of the shooter, all day Avery sat next to him and held his hand, not wanting to let go. She just hoped he survived. I just hoped. Scenes from childhood, youth, all the time spent together began to float past the eyes, memories swept over the girl at once, Auvinen's voice stood in her head and did not stop for a minute.

23:45. Doom time. Doctors recorded death without regaining consciousness. The whole world of the girl collapsed in one second. All the happiness built with this person fell into pieces. She lost not just a shooter or an acquaintance, she lost the meaning of her existence, her reason to breathe. They pulled her away from her long ago and helped, tried to calm her down, but Avery just watched. with a glassy look on Pekka's body. Breathless body.

Nothing mattered then. The girl thought a lot, she reproached herself that she could not do anything, did nothing. She knew he wasn't joking about the shooting and his views on humanity, but she took it for granted and just let things slide. She was ready to die next to him, but it was too late. Everything was long over. The funeral was quiet, modest, only in the circle of two families. Pekka's mother handed Avery an envelope that was securely sealed and slightly bulging, indicating that it was more than just a piece of paper. Only one thing was written on the envelope: "Open in a year of my revolution." Then Avery kept this letter and remembered it for a long time. The police thrashed the two families devastated by grief for a long time, conducted an investigation into the relationship between Avery and Pekka-Eric for a long time, achieving nothing but additional tears and grief. The girl was still very often in Eric's room, rereading his books, lying on his bed, sitting at his chair. She tried to fill the hole left by the young man in his heart. But she settled deep, so she will sit there forever.

Tuusula cemetery, today.

The girl had been sitting for a couple of hours at the grave of her man, just talking to the tombstone, discussing the course of her life after the tragedy. And then she remembered the very letter Eric had left her. She always wore it like she didn't know when the time would come, but the time had come. Trembling hands opened the envelope, taking out a sheet of paper that had yellowed from a short time.

“Dear Avery, my beloved Evs.

I hope your mom gave you this letter if she found it herself and the cops didn't beat her to it. If you're still reading this, I'm glad, but most likely already dead. I don't know
How do you feel about this, I think you will hate me. For all this pain, for all this suffering that I delivered to you and will deliver on the seventh of November. At first I wanted to see you next to me on this fateful day for the whole world. We would do our justice together, Evs! But no. You weren't the type to kill, and I know it, I've always known it. But do not think that I will condemn you for this, on the contrary. I have always known that you are only on my side, and I have always marveled at your courage and recklessness, but I am grateful to you.
Grateful and all. You believed in me, held back my rage against those bastards
don't leave me like those bastards! I love you Avery. I know that after my death you will no longer be happy, as you will be alone, but know that I will always watch you. It doesn't matter how, from heaven or from hell - I will be there, I will hear and see you. You will always be mine, my little Avery.

Forever in your heart

Pekka-Erik Auvinen.

After finishing reading, Avery smiled sadly at such warm words, she felt Eric's thoughts while writing this letter, his feelings and condition. Avery didn't feel angry or sad, she felt grateful for Pekka. Just for everything. He was with her, loved her, even though he left her like that in the end. They both knew who they really were.

A hand reached for the envelope, where something else lay. There were several photographs together, drawings from Eric, but the most fascinating was a silver pendant on a chain. It was a three-dimensional square engraved with "Pekka-Erik Auvinen and Avery Paul, 1989 - forever together.

From that moment on, a smile blossomed on the girl's face, and tears slowly trickled down her cheeks. She tenderly kissed the letter and stroked the tombstone.

Thanks Eric.

Notes:

That's all. I painted everything very badly, but I tried. Again, I will be very glad to criticism (on the case) and public beta.