Winnenden

A shooting rampage left many dead in Winnenden, a town about 100 km (60 miles) from Karlsruhe, yesterday. Many flags are flown at half-staff around Germany today.

The principal at Gabriel's and Jocelyn's school issued the parents a letter. He assured us that the security measures at the school are appropriate, and urged us to help making sure that no one in the school community is isolated. Our school is the only one in the state of Baden-Württemberg that has hired a security company to control its entrance (since the beginning of the school year, albeit one of the last campuses in the European Schools system to do so).