Risbergska Students Seek Answers After Campus Tragedy Investigation

After a massive investigation, the police hope to move forward after the massacre at Campus Risbergska. But students from the school are still living with questions. Why did he go to a school where he knew that almost everyone was an immigrant, wonders Mohaddeseh.

» Published: May 16 2025

Risbergska Students Seek Answers After Campus Tragedy Investigation
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After 100 days, 500 raids and 1,000 interviews, the police have not found anything that indicates Rickard Andersson had xenophobic motives when he shot dead ten people at Risbergska.

This has just been announced at a press conference in Örebro, now that the investigation is soon to be filed away. By presenting the conclusions in this way, they are doing so, among other things, in the hope that those affected will be able to move on, explains regional police chief Patrick Ungsäter.

In the room next door, they are not so convinced.

After the deed, parts of adult education at Risbergska have ended up in the same conference center as the police chose for their press conference – and a lesson in Swedish is about to begin, literally wall-to-wall.

Are they saying he was just sick? That he wasn't a racist and a terrorist?

A young woman shakes her head at the answer before she has to hurry into the lesson.

Celine and Mohaddeseh, who do not want to give their surnames, wait in the corridor outside. They don't buy the police's explanation either.

We didn't get an answer. I still don't understand how he thought, says Celine.

He could have gone to any school. Why did he go to a school where he knew almost everyone was an immigrant?, wonders Mohaddeseh.

They were in the parking lot outside the school when the deed took place. Celine ran in panic, she says. Afterwards, she was completely shocked. Now she wonders how it will be to return to school when it opens again in the autumn.

I've always felt safe and free in Sweden. I've never experienced anything bad before. Now I think someone else will do it again.

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