The God of Kazan: Ilnaz Galyaviev and Gymnasium 175
“Today I will kill a huge amount of bio-waste and shoot myself.”
At 8:57 a.m. on May 11, 2021, 19-year-old Ilnaz Rinatovich Galyaviev posted those words on Telegram. Eight minutes later he walked into Gymnasium No. 175 in Kazan — the school he once attended — with a legally purchased shotgun and a homemade bomb. Nine people were killed: two teachers and seven eighth-graders. He surrendered with his hands up.
Host Alexander Lawson traces how a withdrawn former student obtained a gun license, built explosives in his apartment, declared himself God online, and carried out one of Russia’s…
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