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18th March 2019, 03:28 AM | #1 |
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Utrecht shooting
There was a shooting in Utrecht train, multiple injuries, not 20 minutes ago.
https://www.dailysabah.com/europe/20...tch-police-say https://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...-a4094321.html More as more information trickes by. McHrozni |
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18th March 2019, 03:32 AM | #2 |
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Correction, it happened an hour ago and was reported within 30 minutes. Apparently it's over, anti-terror police are sweeping the area.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/18/e....html?adkey=bn McHrozni |
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18th March 2019, 03:41 AM | #3 |
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18th March 2019, 03:48 AM | #4 |
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Hm, no helicopter? The shooter reportedly fled the scene.
BBC is reporting on it too: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47611811 Maybe another incident like in NZ? I just hope it's not a Jihadist, two months before EU Parliamentary elections. McHrozni |
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18th March 2019, 03:53 AM | #5 |
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18th March 2019, 03:56 AM | #6 |
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So a tram, rather than a train, but no deaths, so the BBC is leading on crush-deaths at a StPD party in NI last night.
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18th March 2019, 03:56 AM | #7 |
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Here we're hoping it's just a falling out between criminals.
We'll see, when we know more. I the meantime, people are just strolling along on the pavements. No police in sight at this moment. peacefull like always. |
18th March 2019, 04:05 AM | #8 |
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18th March 2019, 04:10 AM | #9 |
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No dead reported as of yet.
Police are patrolling. Sometimes we hear some sirens. One helicopter in the air, that I can see and hear. For the rest everything looks normal. |
18th March 2019, 04:37 AM | #10 |
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18th March 2019, 04:51 AM | #11 |
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Aha. One death confirmed, terrorist motive suspected
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47611811 McHrozni |
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18th March 2019, 05:10 AM | #12 |
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Police are preparing something near an appartment in the Trumanlaan (halfway between the shooting and where I am). So maybe they already know something more.
Buildings have been more or less closed. You can only enter here if they know you. Except for that. Everything still looks normal. |
18th March 2019, 06:02 AM | #14 |
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18th March 2019, 06:19 AM | #15 |
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I have to wonder what elevated this to the international news. Just the possible terrorist connection? It's usually of either that or the number of people killed or injured, but it looks like there was "only" one this time. (still too many)
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If this was an attempt at terrorism, and not criminals taking out the competition, one death is a very low body count.
The New Zealand shooter didn't do 10% of the preparations Breivik did and racked up 50 deaths. That's one guy without decoy bombings, a police uniform, a confined geographical location (island). Pretty scary. |
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18th March 2019, 06:47 AM | #18 |
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Police have put a search warrant out for a 37 year old man of Turkish descent.
https://twitter.com/PolitieUtrecht/s...32105780113408 Rumours have it that multiple arrests have been made in Utrecht. In the mean time, we're not allowed to leave the building. We'll see. |
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18th March 2019, 06:58 AM | #20 |
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The fugitive seems to have been before a judge, last month, because of a rape.
As the first mesaages came concerning a woman who was shot. Maybe this was the cause of the shooting. |
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18th March 2019, 07:25 AM | #22 |
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Three dead, apparently. Damn.
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18th March 2019, 07:33 AM | #23 |
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Last year we hosted an exchange student from Utrecht, again too ******* close.
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18th March 2019, 08:21 AM | #26 |
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Unconfirmed rumours have it that the fugitive has a history of rape and/or sexual attacks.
Combined with the (again unconfirmed) rumours that a woman on the tram was shouting 'I didn't do anything!' and that the fugitive wanted to kill his sister in law (again unconfirmed). My thought at this moment are that this is not a terrorist attack, but a completely gotten out of hand relational affair. It's well possible he has some sympathies towards radical muslims (based on his opinion concerning women and western women in particular), but for now it looks like somebody (a very nasty somebody) snapped. And snapped badly. Things might change if more information comes available. I just heard, I was allowed to go home, provided I would be careful. Edit: general lock down of Utrecht is lessened now. |
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18th March 2019, 08:59 AM | #29 |
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18th March 2019, 09:01 AM | #30 |
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It's being reported that the suspect has been captured.
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18th March 2019, 10:46 AM | #34 |
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Yep.
They got him. In the coming days we hopefully will know what the reason of the shooting was. Authorities hold a terrorist motivation possible and police is more looking in relations issues. Time will tell. |
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Erdogan has been playing up the NZ massacre for all he could to incite fear and hatred. This was done purely to increase his political support. The NZ killer was hoping for something like this to happen, start reprisals and then responses to those reprisals.
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I love watching my Facebook page and the jolly game of "Trying to find anyone who had the same opinion, expressed in the same way, with the same modifiers before they knew who the race/gender/ethnicity/ the shooter was that they have after."
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Uhm, with that timing you couldn't expect him to resist the temptation.
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