AMSTERDAM -Dutch police mentioned on Tuesday that they had despatched particular items to a central sq. in Amsterdam as a result of a person with a gun had taken a number of folks hostage at an Apple retailer there.
A number of video clips on broadcaster AT5‘s web site appeared to point out an individual being held within the retailer at gunpoint.
“There's a individual with a firearm within the retailer … police forces are there with many items and specialist items on the scene to get the scenario below management,” Amsterdam police tweeted.
“We're proscribing details about the scenario within the Apple Retailer … so as to not upset our investigation and efforts there,” they mentioned. They later confirmed the scenario is a hostage-taking, with out specifying what number of hostages there have been.
Police cleared the sq. and requested neighbors to stay inside and never come outdoors to look at.
The Apple retailer is situated at one finish of the upscale Leidseplein, a sq. on the south aspect of Amsterdam’s centre.
The Netherlands’ greatest metropolis noticed a spate of 4 armed robberies of cell phone shops in 2021, prompting some shops to take away most of their telephone provides, which had been being focused. Not one of the robberies had been within the metropolis centre nonetheless.
Gun violence will not be unusual within the Netherlands, however hostage takings are extraordinarily uncommon.
In 2015 a person with a gun broke right into a TV studio demanding display screen time. Nobody was injured and the person was later convicted of hostage taking.
And in 2002 a gunman took hostages at an workplace constructing he mistakenly thought belonged to Philips Electronics. He killed himself and didn't hurt any hostages.
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