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| Location | Zadar High School (now Vladimir Nazor High School), Zadar, Socialist Republic of Croatia |
| Date | 9 October 1972 c. 7:50 a.m. (CET, UTC+01:00) |
| Target | Teachers |
| Attack type | School shooting |
| Weapons | Beretta M70 7,65 mm |
| Deaths | 2 |
| Perpetrator | Milorad Vulinović |
| Motive | political action and mental problems |
| Charges | Murder |
On October 9, 1972, a 19-year-old student shot two professors at Zadar High School (now Vladimir Nazor High School) in Zadar, Croatia, Yugoslavia. One profesor died at the scene, while the other died at a hospital. This was the first school attack in Croatia before the Zagreb school stabbing in 2024.
Events
On the morning of October 9, 1972, Milorad Vulinović, a 19-year-old Serbian student, attacked Zadar High School. He used his father's Beretta M70 gun to shoot and kill history professor Vica Vlatković (aged 43) and shoot sociology professor Gojko Matulina (aged 33), who died later in the hospital. The incident was witnessed by Momir Bulatović, future president of Montenegro, and former Croatian actress Jelica Vlajki, who were students at the Zadar High School at the time.
Not long after the murder, a teacher from the school met Vulinović on the street and saw him eating cremeschnittes in the nearby Jadran patisserie, awaiting arrest.
Vulinović stated during the police interrogation that he hated Vlatković, who sympathized with the Croatian Spring. Psychiatric experts found that Vulinović suffered from a psychopathic personality with a tendency towards schizoid psychopathy. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Goli otok, the most severe sentence for young adults in Yugoslavia.
On October 10, there were several thousand commemorations in Zadar. The high school library in Zadar bears the names of Vlatković and Matulina. Two educational institutions in Zadar were also named after them.
References
- ^ "S 19 godina upucao je dvojicu profesora i otišao na - krempite! 'Uzbuđeniji sam bio kad sam ubio dvije grlice!' Poznati Zadrani bili su svjedoci". zadarski.slobodnadalmacija (in Croatian). 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "Zadar, 1972.: Maturant je ubio profesore, pobjegao u slastičarnu, naručio osam vrsta kolača i - limunadu". tportal (in Croatian). 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- "Stravičnog događaja 1972. prisjetio se jedan od svjedoka". zadarskitjednik (in Croatian). 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- ^ "U Hrvatskoj se poznato ubojstvo u školi dogodilo 1972., u zadarskoj gimnaziji, kad je učenik iz mržnje ubio dva profesora". zadarski.slobodnadalmacija (in Croatian). 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2024-12-21.
- "Tragedije u našim školama već su se događale: Učenik ubio profesore, djed oca đaka zbog dječje svađe". srednja (in Croatian). 2024-12-21. Retrieved 2024-12-21.