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Modern killers turn to Internet

The posting on YouTube of a clip announcing a school shooting in Finland before it happened shows how self-shot videos have become the favoured means for modern killers.

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Boy posts a clip on YouTube before shootout in Finland

LONDON: The posting on YouTube of a clip announcing a school shooting in Finland before it happened shows how self-shot videos have become the favoured means for modern killers wanting to get their message across.

The nature of 24-hour media means such videos will get worldwide attention very quickly in a way which letters never could. Seven children and the school principal were killed on Wednesday when a fellow pupil opened fire at a school in Finland, hours after a clip posted on video sharing website YouTube predicted a massacre there.
 
The shooter later died in hospital after shooting himself. The YouTube video, entitled “Jokela High School Massacre — 11/7/2007,” was posted by a user called Sturmgeist89. “I, will eliminate all who I see disgraces of human race and failures of natural selection.”, the killer said.

“Go back 50 years criminals wrote letters,” Mike Berry, a professor in criminal psychology, said. “Now young people use YouTube instead of a pen and paper to pass messages.

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