Crimea massacre has US roots, hints Putin

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has said that Thursday’s mass school shooting in Kurch, Crimea, was the result of ‘‘globalisation’’ and the continuation of an American trend. ‘‘It’s a result of globalisation. On social media, on the internet, we see that there is a whole community that has been created. Everything started with the tragic events in schools in the US,’’ he said at a forum in Sochi, adding that unstable young people were creating ‘‘fake heroes for themselves’’ and ‘‘reaching out for a surrogate for heroism in the absence of the real thing’’. Vladislav Roslyakov, 18, killed 20 students in the Moscow-annexed peninsula college before killing himself. More than 40 others were injured. The Kremlin guards, pictured, march past candles and flowers placed in memory of the victims of the attack in the Alexander Garden near the Kremlin, Moscow.