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Serbia is in the midst of 3 days of national mourning after deadly school shooting

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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Igor Bozic, news director of Serbian TV channel TV N1, about Wednesday's deadly school shooting in Belgrade that killed nine people and injured seven.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Serbia is mourning today after a seventh grader armed with two pistols and Molotov cocktails² opened fire at his school in the country's capital. Police say the 13-year-old killed eight classmates and a school security guard in what authorities are calling a planned attack. For the latest, we are joined by Igor Bozic. He's the news director at the Serbian TV outlet³ TV N1, and he joins us from Belgrade this morning. Good morning.

IGOR BOZIC: Good morning.

FADEL: If you could just start by telling us what happened - I mean, authorities are describing this as a planned attack.

BOZIC: Well, obviously, it was planned because the kid - they found at his home a plan of the school and the list of the name he attempt to assassinate⁴. So obviously that - and they showed that to the public on the press conference yesterday. So obviously, that kid was completely unsatisfied with his status. That's - the chief of the police told last night in one show on public broadcaster. And he said that he was alone - I mean, feeling alone. And then he used the gun of his father to - let's say to do some kind of revenge. I mean, it is not finished. Like, investigation⁵ still didn't finish, and there is a lot of unanswered questions, but that probably will be the way and the reason why this happened.

FADEL: Now, the prosecutor's office in Belgrade says the alleged⁶ shooter, who's in custody⁷, will not face criminal charges because he's a minor⁸. So will anyone be held accountable for this violence?

BOZIC: Probably his parent - I mean, his father, who actually took him on the shooting range to use him for - to learn him how to shoot from the gun. And he is already in custody. And because in Serbia, the parents are responsible for the act of their minor children, he probably is going to finish in the jail. We're still trying to find out - because he didn't keep his gun on a proper way. He let the minor to took the gun and to kill people. So that's going to be probably criminal charges against his father and probably he's going to finish in the prison.

FADEL: Now, here in the U.S., mass shootings are unfortunately quite common. Students go through lockdown drills in case of an event like this at their school. How unusual is violence like this in Serbia?

BOZIC: Completely unusual because this never happened in Serbia before, neither university or high school. And this is something completely unbelievable because this is elementary school. We are talking about kids who is only 13 years old. And he - I mean, it's completely unbelievable for Serbia. And also, we never had any kind of incidents of this type. And what I've heard just before - that in one school near Belgrade appear, let's say, a copycat of this case but with a plastic gun. So police actually arrested that boy and his father this morning.

FADEL: Igor Bozic is the news director of Serbian TV outlet TV N1.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 cocktails   

n.鸡尾酒( cocktail的名词复数 )；餐前开胃菜；混合物

参考例句：

• Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks. 请四点钟左右来，我们喝鸡尾酒，吃烤牛排。 来自辞典例句
• Cocktails were a nasty American habit. 喝鸡尾酒是讨厌的美国习惯。 来自辞典例句

3 outlet   

n.出口/路；销路；批发商店；通风口；发泄

参考例句：

• The outlet of a water pipe was blocked.水管的出水口堵住了。
• Running is a good outlet for his energy.跑步是他发泄过剩精力的好方法。

4 assassinate   

vt.暗杀，行刺，中伤

参考例句：

• The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
• A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。

5 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

6 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

7 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

8 minor   

adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修

参考例句：

• The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
• I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。