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Emsdetten is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
[edit] Geography
Emsdetten is situated on the river Ems, approx. 13 km south-east of Rheine and 25 km north-west of Münster.
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[edit] Division of the town
Emsdetten consists of 8 districts:
- Emsdetten
- Ahlintel
- Austum
- Hembergen
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- Hollingen
- Isendorf
- Sinningen
- Westum
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[edit] History
[edit] Emsdetten school shooting
On November 20, 2006, at about 9:30 AM local time, an 18-year old gunman, Bastian Bosse, who was a former student graduate in 2005, entered the Geschwister Scholl School (a Realschule) firing several shots and injuring 27 people (16 of these were policemen injured by a smoke grenade while entering the school). Bosse was found then with a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. He had left an Internet posting and a video message from his parents' living room shortly before the attack. Bosse stated that he hated people and was taught to be a "loser" at this school. He also left a suicide note on his Internet homepage, which is now closed. [1][2]
The event caused renewed demands for a prohibition of violent computer games (which called "Killerspiele" by the german media and politicians) in Germany, even though the suicide note shows no connection between computer games and the shooting, citing social reasons instead.
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