The police state that there are no signs of terrorist motives, but are otherwise tight-lipped about the 30-year-old perpetrator’s motives. He is said to have acted confused and was armed with “several” knives. A backpack that was feared to contain explosives turned out to be empty of dangerous items.
It was at a nightclub that a man in his 30s took four people hostage early Saturday morning. Around 150 households around the site were evacuated during the incident.
The hostage situation began shortly after 5 a.m., according to an organization that rented the venue on Friday, just over an hour after the club had closed. reports De Telegraaf.
The man surrendered in the early afternoon after releasing the hostages, first three people and later also the last one. All must be employed at the nightclub.
– We are extremely happy that it could end like this, that the victims were able to get out safely and that we were able to arrest the suspect without using violence, says Marthyne Kunst at the local prosecutor’s office.
The police write on X, formerly Twitter, that there are no signs of terrorist motives, but is otherwise tight-lipped about the man’s motives. He is said to have acted confused and was armed with “several” knives. A backpack that was feared to contain explosives turned out to be empty of dangerous items.
The arrested person is said to be a Dutch citizen and previously known to the police, according to De Telegraaf.