A GERMAN teenager who wounded nine students and a teacher in a terrifying axe and arson attack on his school was motivated by “hatred for humanity” and had been planning the rampage since April, officials said yesterday.

AN 18-year-old who stormed his school armed with an axe, knives and Molotov cocktails in an attack that injured nine people had marked the date in his calendar with the words “apocalypse today”, German prosecutors said yesterday.