US EditionCroatian Man Sentenced to 50 Years for Killing 7-Year-Old Student in School Attack
The attacker was convicted of aggravated murder and 50 criminal offenses; the court cited the need for harsh sentencing to prevent future crimes against children.
- A Croatian man received a 50-year prison sentence for killing a 7-year-old student and injuring others in a school attack in Zagreb in 2024.
- The attack at Precko Elementary School killed one child and wounded three students and a teacher.
- The maximum 50-year sentence, rarely handed down in Croatia, was given to achieve 'special and general prevention', a court spokesperson said.
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Croatian Minister of Science and Education Radovan Fuchs stated today that the verdict for the crime in the Prečko Elementary School is appropriate to the gravity of the tragedy and in accordance with the law, after the County Court unfinalized a sentence of 50 years in prison to a 20-year-old murderer for the murder of a child and a number of other crimes.
It is the maximum prison sentence and is rarely imposed by Croatian justice.
A 20-year-old boy, who committed murder in December 2024 to a seven-year-old student and injured four other people at a Zagreb school, was convicted...
The tragedy in Preček has an epilogue: a 20-year-old man gets 50 years in prison. The verdict is not yet final.
A young man who killed a seven-year-old child and seriously injured three children and a teacher in a knife attack at a Zagreb elementary school last December was sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison by a court in Zagreb today, Croatian media reported. The verdict is not yet final.
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vijesti.meThe parents of the murdered boy were not present at the first-instance verdict for the crime in the elementary school in Zagreb's Prečko neighborhood.
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