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Post by karl on Mar 19, 2019 8:48:29 GMT -7
Pieter
It is good to bring flaggs to half staff in the victims honour with this, it is one thing to see names, but simply another to see their faces. We think of the victims, but leave out their families that must live with the fact their love ones are dead and there is little honour being dead.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2019 16:36:02 GMT -7
Prime minister Mark Rutte and Ferdinand Grapperhaus. Dutch Minister of Justice and Security lay flowers at the sight of the attack Tuesday[/i
Police offers lay flowers next to the place where the attack took place in Utrecht
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2019 16:58:54 GMT -7
Suspect Gökman Tanış (the man in the white T-shirt) uses heavy Dutch swear words om this Dutch street interview
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Post by pieter on Mar 19, 2019 17:12:47 GMT -7
Maybe you folks in the USA are used to Swat teams, but in the Netherlands we seldom such huge concentration of all kinds of Police forces.
The special police forces drive in fast black cars.
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Post by pieter on Mar 20, 2019 8:38:06 GMT -7
Police arrest a new suspect in Utrecht shooting, two brothers are releasedMarch 20, 2019A sea of flowers at the spot where the shooting took place. Photo: Robin Utrecht via HHPolice have arrested a 40-year old man from Utrecht in connection with the tram shooting in the city on Monday in which three people died.
The man was picked up on Tuesday afternoon and is now, along with Gökmen Tanis, one of two suspects being held in custody. Nothing has been made public about why he was arrested.
Gökmen Tanis, one of two suspects being held in custody in connection with the tram shooting in the city Utrecht on Monday
Gökmen Tanis, one of two suspects being held in custody in connection with the tram shooting in the city Utrecht on Monday
Two other men, who are brothers but are not related to Tanis, were released on Tuesday afternoon and are no longer considered to be suspects, the public prosecution department said in a statement.
Police are asking more witnesses who were on the tram to come forward as their investigation into the shooting continues.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, although police say they have not established any relationship between the alleged killer and his victims.
Eyewitnesses said the killer appeared to be aiming at a woman when he opened fire on the tram in Utrecht at 9.45am on Monday. However, the public prosecution department said on Tuesday that the note left in a red car, believed to be the getaway vehicle, led them to suspect terrorism.
The red car, a stolen Renault Clio, believed to be the getaway vehicle of suspect Gökmen Tanis and the other suspect who was the driver
‘Until now, we are looking seriously at a terrorist motive,’ the department said in a statement. ‘The note found in the getaway car and the nature of the facts would indicate this. Other motives have not been ruled out and these are being looked into.’
Also on Tuesday it emerged that Tanis has a criminal record and was released from jail on licence ahead of his trial for rape on March 1.Source: DutchNews.nl:
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Post by pieter on Mar 20, 2019 10:08:13 GMT -7
At the Dutch/German border the German police was present to monitor the border in cooperation with their Dutch colleagues. The Dutch and German police wanted to prevent that suspects would flee over the border into Germany.
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Post by pieter on Mar 20, 2019 10:13:16 GMT -7
KanaleneilandUtrecht South-West, Kanaleneiland [Canals island), the area where the attack took placeKanaleneiland is a district within the Southwest section of the Dutch city of Utrecht. It was created in the massive expansion of the city in the 1960s. It was listed (in 2005) as one of 40 "problem neighborhoods" that required extra attention by the Dutch Ministry of Housing.
Kanaleneiland's residents have low levels of employment, health, and education. Approximately 76% of the population are not ethnically Dutch, most of them being of Turkish and Moroccan origin. This unique political climate is one that shaped the views of one of its ex-residents, national politician Geert Wilders.Kanaleneiland is a neighbourhood with a lot of crime, accidents, streetgangs and occasional accidents like the fire in this apartmentA crashed Audi of a Moroccan-Dutch Audi gang in Kanaleneiland, Utrech. Moroccan-Dutch Audi gangs often commit Crime over the border in GermanyA Police officer jumps from a burning building in Kanaleneiland Utrecht. Migrant youth (boys) helped him. One Moroccan Dutch boy climed on the roof to help the police officer of the building.A Moroccan Dutch young man shouts to the police officer: "Go out of their my friend, jump". Locals climb on the roof and help the wounded officers off the roof and other Police officers downstairs help to get the police officers safe on the ground.
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Post by pieter on Mar 20, 2019 10:37:05 GMT -7
Kanaleneiland is what ban lieu's are in France and Molenbeek in Brussels Belgium. Tensions between native Dutch police and migrants.
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Post by karl on Mar 20, 2019 18:48:20 GMT -7
Pieter
Boy oh boy, those fellows in Kanaleneiland are very brave or very ignorant doing those wheelies. In my own silly days with motorcycles on the Autobahn it was absolutely important to have both wheels on the road surface at the speeds we traveled at. Only once was to do a wheelie and that was not on purpose. Whilst passing a freight truck at speed, and he was not dogging it by any means, I caught his bow wave of air and it brought my front wheel out of road way contact. To regain contact, was to touch the rear break enough to bring the front wheel back down in road way contact.
It is important not to touch the front break whilst the wheel is up, for that would stop the wheel in mid air and when once to touch down, would not be pleasant for control purpose.
Karl
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