The Dutch student who killed a 14-year-old girl, her mother and a university professor in a twin shooting spree in Rotterdam was a neo-Nazi and self-professed alcoholic who had previously feuded with his lecturers, it has emerged.
His arrest
The 32-year-old suspect, named as Fouad L., was arrested by armed police after he allegedly killed a mother and a daughter in their own home and set it on fire before travelling to the nearby Erasmus medical university where he shot dead a 43-year-old professor.
Fouad L., who is understood to be a former student at Erasmus, had first burst into a house in the Dutch city and opened fire, killing a 39-year-old woman and seriously injuring her 14-year-old daughter who later died in hospital.
The suspected shooter then moved to the Erasmus medical centre, where he launched Molotov cocktails and rained bullets at staff, killing professor Jurgen Damen, 43, before he set fire to another part of the facility.
Terrified medics were seen running for their lives from the building, while others trapped on the higher floors begged for help by putting desperate posters on the windows.
Elite police stormed the hospital before they arrested the suspect. It has since emerged that Fouad L. appeared to be an avid 4chan user who spoke about his deeply troubled past which included a conviction for torturing his rabbit in 2021 while drunk according to Dutch media.
Local media reports said the mother he killed in the shooting, who has not been named, was the one who reported Fouad L for the animal abuse, which saw the former student lose his job and place at the university.
Police are investigating this as a possible motive.
Prosecutors had warned the university hospital earlier this year about whether to accept Fouad L as a student after it emerged that he had images of people being stabbed on his phone as well as Nazi material when police responded to the report of animal abuse in 2021.
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Investigating officers also found disturbing material on his phone, which included images and videos of people being stabbed to death, as well as several ‘Nazi-related and right-wing extremist images.’
More crimes
Fouad L. was also taken to court for allegedly shooting a pigeon through the chest, though the case was dismissed by a Dutch judge after they ruled that police did not provide sufficient evidence.
He was also taken to court after he kicked and threw a dog about his garden, an incident that was caught on tape by witnesses, but it is not known whether he was ever convicted of animal abuse in this case.
The 4Chan account believed to be linked to Fouad L. made several posts airing out his grievances with his university, claiming that he keeps ‘getting suspended for 6 months every year’ as he cannot connect with any of his teachers or fellow students.
‘My dear asperger brothers, with my whole heart I strongly recommend you to just go NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and never try to do anything in academics, especially if you’re not a cuck and insist on speaking your mind like a man,’ he wrote in one post.
