This is how the whole evening went in the Apple Store Amsterdam | Inland
It was the denouement of a whole evening, which started around 5.40 pm with a report to the police. Witnesses reported that shots were fired from the store at the police. The suspect is said to be wearing a bomb vest and carrying two weapons, a handgun and an automatic firearm.
The suspect, who is known to the police under the Weapons and Ammunition Act, subsequently demanded 200 million euros in cryptocurrencies. It is not known whether he was known to the GGZ. The problems assume that the suspect acted.
bearcat
A police force was assembled with several vehicles, dozens of vehicles, terror units and even the specialized vehicle Bearcat.
All catering establishments around Leidseplein, the Holland Casino and the Stadsschouwburg were evacuated in the following hours. Police commissioner Frank Paauw announced that seventy people were freed in the course of the evening.
Vondelpark
Around half past eight, a dozen employees of the Apple Store, together with a group of layouts, were at Vondelpark. They had managed to get to safety via the stairs at the back of the building. Two colleagues from the said that they were waiting upstairs with others, until they received a sign that they could leave. One of them was emotional: “I left America for this kind of misery. I experienced it there too. I thought, never this again. Now I am right in the middle of it here in Amsterdam.”
The photo the hostage taker send to AT5.
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Message to AT5
Photos of the hostage situation show how the suspect, dressed in a camouflage suit, is holding a hostage. During the hostage situation, the suspect even contacted the city broadcaster AT5 by sending photos and messages. “Here speaks the hostage-taker, if the amount is not going to be sent. Has this been sent. Is this man’s life on your conscience”, is the confused one that he literally brought to AT5.
The hostage-taker has put his arm over the shoulder of the hostage during a robbery at the Apple Store on Leidseplein.
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“We knew that there were people in a closet, luckily the suspect did not know that”
broom closet
Four colleagues afterwards also spent hours in a broom closet, close to the hostage-taker. “They have been terrified,” the triangle said in a form afterwards. “We knew that there were people in a closet, luckily the suspect did not know that,” said the chief prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service during the goods. “We wanted to negotiate and also exhaust the man and then overpower him if the situation arose.”
The hostage situation came to an end after half past eleven, when the police had a bottle of water delivered to the door with a robot. The hostage customer ran and the hostage-taker went after him. Once outside, the suspect was hit by a police car. The 27-year-old was subsequently taken to hospital with serious injuries, but the others remain uninjured.
The police did not expect the hostage to run away. The Amsterdam police chief Frank Paauw: the action of the victim, a British customer, a ‘heroic act’.
House searches
The police have carried out two house searches in Amsterdam: one in the home where the suspect is registered and one in a home where he often uses.
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Sniper and robots hold the suspect at gunpoint.
Ⓒ Michel van Bergen