Going Postal

I am not an expert on suicide and/or the various ways, means and preferences for offing oneself but I still find it a stretch to believe a border police guard would publicly commit suicide in the midst of a high value assignment. Ynet News:

The revision committee appointed to investigate the shooting incident at the farewell ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the David Ben-Gurion Airport officially determined that it was a suicide. According to the committee, Border Guard officer Raid Asaad Ghanan, 32, of the Druze village of Beit Jan shot and killed himself a few minutes prior to the departure of the French president from Israel.
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Following the incident, the officer’s family members said that they do not believe it was a suicide. “We scornfully reject the claims that our son put an end to his life. He was a good-hearted, happy person. He had a family and there was no reason that he would do such a thing,” they said to Ynet.

In light of the claims and in order to officially confirm the case, Police Commissioner Dudi Cohen appointed the committee and Ghanan’s body was taken for autopsy at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.

The committee’s findings stating that this was indisputably a suicide were presented to the police commissioner this past weekend. On Monday, he placed the family’s care in the hands of the army’s manpower branch.

I realize there is always the case to be made for an individual ‘going postal’ which is a kind of suicide/death wish but in those scenarios; the individual seeks to take out others with him/her. It just did not happen in this case. We will probably never really learn what motivated this young man to act this way - although my instinct feeling is to disbelieve the official government line. Calling it – channeling my inner Barry Chamish.