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Pekka Mykkänen, Helsingin Sanomat
Auvinen’s idol Eric Harris a “murderous psychopath”Denver/Littleton
Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the Jokela school shooter, admired Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters.
Harris was a “megalomaniac, murderous and cold psychopath” who enjoyed lying and lacked a conscience.
Harris and his friend Dylan Klebold killed 12 students,
a teacher and finally themselves in 1999 at Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado.
American experts who have studied the killings for several years told Helsingin Sanomat
that although the messages and acts of Auvinen and Harris have similarities,
it will take time to find out about the motives and state of mind of the Finnish shooter.
“Did he feel that it was okay for him to kill inferior people? We need to know a lot more to be able to determine that”,
says well-known professor of psychiatry Frank Ochberg who has retired from the University of Michigan.
Ochberg worked with the FBI on the investigation.
It’s hard to make profiles on school killers, and researchers have been surprised.
Harris and Klebold for example “were like night and day”, says journalist-author Dave Cullen
who for several years has studied the shootings for his upcoming book.
Cullen says at his home in Denver that the diaries Harris left behind talked about deep “hate, hate, hate”.
Klebold on the other hand was depressed and self-destructive and his writings were full of love and desire to be loved.
Cho Seung-hui, a student at Virginia Tech who last April killed 32 people and himself, most likely had schizophrenia, says Ochberg.
All three school shooters suffered from different diseases.
The more you learn about the three American killers, the clearer it seems that Auvinen
- at least on the surface - had similar views on the world as Harris. Auvinen imitated Harris:
he talked to his friends about how he admired the Columbine shooters, put Harris’ favorite music on his video clip,
read Nietzsche and chose his web user name from the T-shirt Harris wore on the day of the killings.
Both men said they hated stupid people with no talent. However, Harris didn’t necessarily inspire Auvinen to violence.
The violence most likely was in him and he just followed Harris’ example in his actions.
Both Harris and Auvinen wrote that they stood above others. Yet both had to face their limitations.
Harris wanted to blow up his high school among other things. “He thought that he would become more famous than Hitler.
He died disappointed – the homemade bombs didn’t explode and the school didn’t catch fire.”
Auvinen considered himself “godlike” and predicted that “my enemies will run scared and hide when my name is mentioned”.
Yet he confessed before the shootings that “I can’t change things much alone”.
The victims of Harris and Auvinen had to run and hide, but ultimately everything was over in less than an hour.