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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: Jos Theelen on April 30, 2009, 10:07:56 AM

Title: Attack on the Dutch royal family
Post by: Jos Theelen on April 30, 2009, 10:07:56 AM
This man drove his car through the crowd and probably tried to hit the royal bus (seen in the background). he killed at least 4 people and wounded 13. This day is the queens-day in the Netherlands. Custom is that the queen visits a town. The man is still alive but badly wounded.

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QuoteA car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.
The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.
No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.
Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.
But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.
They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.
Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.
Title: Re: Attack on the Dutch royal family
Post by: Lucidor on April 30, 2009, 10:10:47 AM
 :(
Title: Re: Attack on the Dutch royal family
Post by: The Brain on April 30, 2009, 10:11:08 AM
One thread was enough.
Title: Re: Attack on the Dutch royal family
Post by: KRonn on April 30, 2009, 10:15:12 AM
Wow....   :(
Title: Re: Attack on the Dutch royal family
Post by: Richard Hakluyt on April 30, 2009, 10:19:57 AM
Quote from: The Brain on April 30, 2009, 10:11:08 AM
One thread was enough.

Clearly Fred de Graaf generated a lot of media interest at that news conference  :huh: