I’ve talked about the importance of keeping gammas out of your organizations, but omegas are certainly capable of posing a problem as well:
A deaf computer scientist slaughtered four of his colleagues in a knife rampage at the police headquarters in Paris today.
The attacker, believed to be a 45-year-old who had worked for Paris police for 20 years, was shot dead in the courtyard after murdering his colleagues with a ceramic knife.
At least one of the dead is a policewoman and witnesses described a ‘panic’ in the building as the attack unfolded at Thursday lunchtime.
The motive for the bloodbath is not yet clear but investigators suspect it was caused by a workplace row.
Union officials said there had been ‘tensions’ between the man and his supervisor and described the attack as a ‘moment of madness’.
Colleagues described the knifeman as a trusted, long-serving employee who had full security clearance and had never caused problems before.
It also tends to raise the question of relying upon the police to protect you from criminals with guns when they can’t even defend themselves from one deaf nerd with a kitchen knife.