European correspondent
Ismail Moradi, 16, would usually carry his textbooks to school.
But on Wednesday, he squeezed a bunch of red flowers to honor those killed in the worst mass shooting in Sweden.
“I was shocked and I didn’t know if I wanted to come to school today after it happened so nearby,” he explains.
Ismail’s elementary school is located next to the adult learning center, which was targeted yesterday.
Although the police have not yet given a motive to attack, Ismail – which is Kurdski – he says he is afraid that in the shooting there was a clear racial element.
“In this school, Sweden is just a newcomer. There are not so many Swedish people. So, I think she was targeted at a special group of people.”
The whole day there was a permanent procession of locals who lit candles and look at the place of school that remains sealed.
Free faces on the icy wind reflects the feeling of shock that has captured many Swedes in the past 24 hours.
On the scene, a muffle came down when the Swedish king arrived to leave his flowers. The ceremony echoes the national mood as the flags fly at halftime.
Collective sadness is complicated by a lack of explanation for the attack. The police, now in the middle of a huge investigation, did nothing for that purpose.
Trying to build a “pure skin” profile – someone who has not previously known to the police or security service – makes it difficult for any probe.
But the scale of the loss of life means that the public and politicians now want the answers from the police.
More than 100 specialist officials are included at the local, regional and national level.
Unconfirmed reports in Swedish media say the attacker was a 35-year-old local man who had a legally owned gun.
Reham Attala, 21, is a law student also believes that this is no accident that this college is popular with immigrants – chosen, not others who have been reported to have been suspected near the house.
“I’m so sad and scared,” he tells us at the shooting site. “That didn’t have to happen.”
Reham explains that her father is Sirian and her mom Palestine, but for her Sweden she is home. She has lived in Orebbro for the last 11 years.
She was alarmed that armed people were attacked by a school that is known to be taught Swedish for immigrants (SFI) courses.
“These people lost yesterday were studying Swedish and that is why I think about my future and whether I will live here at all, do I have to have children here? All these questions.”
People should be free to learn and live in peace at the campus without fear that this will happen, sighs.
