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Updated: 2002-05-08 01:00

Hero teacher recalls German school bloodbath (2002/05/08)
德校园枪击事件惊魂未定 英勇教师回忆生死瞬间 (2002/05/08)
Robert Steinhaeuser, the teenage student who committed Germany's worst post-war massacre, was a member of a gun club and clinically shot many of his 16 victims in the head, police said April 27, 2002.
"Go ahead and shoot me -- but look me in the eyes!" demanded mild-mannered art and history teacher Rainer Heise when he confronted the teenaged killer who had shot dead 16 people in his old school.

"Herr Heise, that's enough for today," replied 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser respectfully, putting down the pistol with which he had been about to shoot his former teacher.

Heise, balding and 60, has emerged as the hero of Germany's worst postwar massacre for the way he seized the initiative from the young gunman, shaking him out of his frenzied trance and preventing yet more deaths at Erfurt's Gutenberg high school.

Tears filled Heise's eyes and he clutched a handkerchief during an interview at his home in this eastern German town.

Yet his account of the 20-minute bloodbath that has plunged the country into mourning was chillingly matter-of-fact.

"I opened the door from the art classroom and saw a masked man in a black Ninja warrior-style outfit. He held a pistol up to my chest. Suddenly he pulled off his mask. His hair was plastered to his head with sweat.

"I recognised him. I said, `Robert, was that you shooting?' He nodded slowly. I plucked at my pullover and said: `Go ahead and shoot me, but look me in the eyes!' He said: `Herr Heise, that's enough for today,' and put down his pistol."

"I said, `let's talk about it.' He said `Yes, Herr Heise.' I opened the door, I said `Please', beckoning him politely to go in, then pushed him into the room.

"I must have done it pretty powerfully because he stumbled and then I slammed the door shut and locked it. I ran back down to the head office."

Heise ran to the school's head office. "It was locked. I rang the bell. The headmistress opened it when I said it was me. The deputy headmistress, was sitting dead at her desk. Her glasses were still on. There was a dark pool on the desk, it might have been blood."

Heise, dressed in black and sporting a carefully trimmed white beard and moustache, said his training had helped him to master the situation.

By the time he confronted Steinhaeuser, Heise was well aware that he was facing a killer because he had seen a dead colleague, and had even seen the masked figure only minutes earlier shouting: "Damn shit, I've got to reload."

"My instinctive calm must have calmed his feelings," Heise said.

Police said the teacher's bravery had prevented an even higher death toll.

(Agencies)

在4月26日的德国校园枪击案中,当平日为人谦和的艺术历史系教师赖纳·海泽和当时已经枪杀了16个人的"少年杀手"面对面对峙的时候,他对这位昔日的学生说道:"开枪啊,朝我开枪,但是请你看着我的眼睛!"

接着,这名年仅19岁的凶手罗伯特·施泰因豪泽毕恭毕敬地回答说:"今天已经够了,海泽先生。"然后放下了手中原本指向老师的手枪。

海泽,这位现年60岁的已经谢顶的老教师,在这起二战后德国历史上最严重的古腾堡校园枪击案中英勇地挺身而出,控制了年轻的凶手,让他从疯狂的状态中清醒过来,从而避免了更多的伤亡,因而被人们视为英雄。

当海泽在他位于德国东部某城镇的家中接受采访的时候,他始终眼含热泪,手中攥着手帕。

然而他口中叙述的历时20分钟的校园血案确是血淋淋的事实,这起惨案使得德国举国上下一片哀鸣。

海泽回忆当时的情景说:"我从艺术系的教室开门走出去,看见一个蒙面人,他身穿黑色的Ninja电子游戏中的武士服装。他用枪指着我的胸口。然后突然撕下了面具。他的头发被汗水贴在额头上。"

"我认出了他。我说:'罗伯特,是你开的枪吗?'他慢慢地点了点头。然后我拉着我的毛衣说道:'开枪啊,朝我开枪啊,但是看着我的眼睛!'他说:'够了,海泽先生。'然后就放下了枪。"

"我说:'我们来谈谈吧。'他说:'好的,海泽先生。'然后我打开门,说了声'请进,'很客气地让他进屋,然后把他推了进去。"

"我想我当时一定用力很大,因为他脚下绊了一下,然后我用力把门关上,在外面上了锁。接着我就跑到校长办公室去了。"

他继续回忆道:"校长室的门锁着,我按响了门铃,说'是我',然后校长打开了门。副校长已经死在座位上了,还戴着她的眼镜。桌子上有一滩黑色的液体,我想应该是血。"

海泽身穿黑色上衣,留着精心修剪过的胡须。他说正是由于他平日的训练有素,才能够在关键时刻掌握主动,控制局面。

当海泽和施泰因豪泽相遇的时候,他清楚的知道他正面对一个杀手,因为他已经看到了一个同事的尸体,在这几分钟前还目睹这个蒙面人大声喊道:"他妈的,又要上子弹了。"

海泽说:"一定是我那种天生的沉着镇定让他冷静下来的。"

警方称,正是由于这位教师的英勇行为才避免了更多的人伤亡。

(中国日报网站译)

 
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