He read the account of how a nineteen year-old German student shot twelve teachers, two students, one school administrator and one policeman in Erfurt, Germany before turning the gun on himself. “Some students had fled to the top floor of the school block and written on a large banner ‘Hilfe’ and stuck it in the window,” Gareth recounts. “I felt the youth of Germany were sending out a ‘Macedonian call’ for help.”