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Five dead, 12 injured in Queen’s Day tragedy
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Queen’s Day celebrations in Apeldoorn ended in tragedy, with five people killed and 12 injured, five of them seriously. Just before noon a man deliberately drove his car at high speed into a crowd watching an open-topped coach carrying the Royal Family.
The driver is a 38-year-old Dutch national, who is an unemployed security guard. The public prosecutor says the man told police the target of this attack was the Royal Family, a crime punishable with a maximum jail sentence of 30 years. The public prosecutor has ruled out terrorism.
The car missed the royal coach by 15 metres and came to a standstill when it crashed into a well-known monument. The driver was injured and had to be cut from his vehicle. He was arrested and taken away for interrogation. He is in hospital and his condition is critical.
The man had made an earlier attempt to cross a safety barrier and was turned away by police. By the time the man approached the royal coach, his car was already heavily damaged. Together with a bomb disposal squad police searched the vehicle. The National Anti-terror Coordinator helped launch the investigation.
Oh, and the guy who did it died last night…
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First, I am shocked! This will be a big blow to the traditional Dutch high approachability of the Royal Family. The Dutch lost an other piece of innocence.
Also I am grateful, that the (probably very confused) man that did this unspeakable deed, is not from some kind of minority, because that would bring with it even more unwanted political and social changes.
the driver must have been in alot of unspeakable pain to drive himself into that crowd of people and then headlong to his own death into the “war” monument…what war was he in? we are shocked ..we all ask why? well we must be shocked into being sensative to those hurting around us and perhaps maybe we all are a bit too selfish to reach out to those who really need our touch and love…may jesus comfort all those who lost loved ones…we all lost them for they were our brothers and sisters too.