Several people were injured on Wednesday July 8 in an attack at a secondary school in Schongau, Bavaria, and a suspect was arrested, according to police.
“At present we know that several people were injured at Welfen Gymnasium. A suspect has been arrested,” Bavarian law enforcement officials said on X, calling on the population to “avoid the area” but giving no details on the nature of the attack or incident.
“The number of people affected and the severity of their injuries are being clarified,” police added. When contacted, she was immediately unreachable.
Several attacks in recent years
A reception point for relatives of middle and high school students has been set up in a fire station in this locality, located less than a hundred kilometers southwest of Munich, according to the police’s X account.
Germany has experienced several attacks in schools and markets in recent years that have traumatized the country. The latest in a school took place in September 2025, when a 17-year-old Kosovar seriously injured a 45-year-old teacher by stabbing her in a vocational training establishment in Essen.
The suspect, with “jihadist” motivations according to the prosecution, had also injured a man chosen at random in the street and the janitor of a primary school.
