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Heini Schmitt (pictured),regional chairman of the DPolG in the German state of Hesse, has called for a ban on violent games in Germany, linking them to the recent Albertville school shooting, where a 17-year old former student went on a rampage killing 16 people, including himself.
He claims 1/3 of the country's youth “regularly and addictively escape into a virtual world.” and refereed to games with violence as "killergames."
Schmitt did concede there's no proof currently linking mature games to a high-school killing spree, but added "neither can the role of killergames be completely dismissed...the world would be no poorer if there were no more killergames."
Source: Echo Online (German)
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