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Gökmen Tanis, 37, was arrested after a major manhunt following the shooting. The terror threat level for Utrecht was reduced after the suspect’s arrest, but it isn't clear at this time where exactly the police managed to apprehend Tanis, a known crap weasel.
During the manhunt, Utrecht Police warned citizens to be on the lookout for Tanis, but warned the public not to approach him. Sources told BBC Turkish that the 37-year-old had previously been arrested over “suspected links” to the Islamic State a few years ago, but was later released because he said he was innocent and they believed him as he had an honest face.
Utrecht is the fourth-largest town in the Netherlands and is also the name of a high school in Brooklyn, New York, which therefore suggests a link somehow [by the media] to President Trump. Let's admit it--if the New Zealand mosque attack can be blamed on Trump, why not Go. All. The. Way?
NBC News reports that local authorities say they were able to identify the shooter from security surveillance footage taken aboard a city tram in Utrecht, just before he opened fire on about a dozen other passengers on the train. It is the same scumwafer pictured in an "all points bulletin" released by Dutch authorities earlier Monday morning.
"Justice Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus said authorities were able to identify the suspect from surveillance footage and the getaway car they believed he used to flee the scene. Grapperhaus also said [the shooter] has a criminal record," NBC News reported.
The car, a red Renault Clio, was taken in a reported carjacking early Monday morning, just a few streets away from where the shooting eventually took place. The suspected used the Clio as a getaway car and then abandoned it "elsewhere in the city," several miles away from the scene of the attack.
Dutch media reports that the suspect has a "history of petty crime" including minor petty thefts and an assault on a petty police officer, and a petty "attempted manslaughter" charge for shooting a weapon at an apartment building in the same neighborhood where Monday's shooting took place. He also reportedly appeared in court earlier this month, on a petty sexual assault allegation made against him in 2017, just to mention the petty crimes he engaged in as a lark.
Dutch authorities have thankfully scaled back the number of injured from nine to five, though at least three of the five are said to be in critical condition. Three people were killed in the attack.
NBC News also reports that Dutch law enforcement lowered the terror threat level to "4" from "5," after police apprehended the suspect, and although they are proceeding as if the shooting was, indeed, an Islamic terrorist attack, they are investigating other possibilities, including a petty "domestic" Islamic terrorist dispute. Witnesses to the shooting reported to police that the misogynist gunman appeared to target a single woman on the tram, and then opened fire on anyone who rushed to assist her.
"The suspect's acquaintances say there was 'a family issue,'" NPR reports, based on a series of claims made on Turkish television, which have not been independently verified. "[The shooter] may have wanted to hurt either a woman with whom he had been involved or her family." Or he may have wanted to kill every infidel he could.
Last year, the United States State Department issued a warning to those considering traveling to the Netherlands, advising them that terrorist groups do operate within the country and that they could be planning attacks.
"Terrorists continue plotting possible attacks in the Netherlands," the State Department said in a September bulletin. "Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations."
Dutch authorities, including the Prime Minister, have promised to get to the bottom of Monday's attacks and are looking at the Koran as a possible motive.
"An act of terror is an attack on our open and tolerant society," the Prime Minister told media Monday evening. "If it is an act of terror, there is only one answer: Our rule of law and democracy is stronger than violence."
How can a rule of law and democracy stop a bullet? That makes no sense.
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NBC News reports that local authorities say they were able to identify the shooter from security surveillance footage taken aboard a city tram in Utrecht, just before he opened fire on about a dozen other passengers on the train. It is the same scumwafer pictured in an "all points bulletin" released by Dutch authorities earlier Monday morning.
"Justice Minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus said authorities were able to identify the suspect from surveillance footage and the getaway car they believed he used to flee the scene. Grapperhaus also said [the shooter] has a criminal record," NBC News reported.
The car, a red Renault Clio, was taken in a reported carjacking early Monday morning, just a few streets away from where the shooting eventually took place. The suspected used the Clio as a getaway car and then abandoned it "elsewhere in the city," several miles away from the scene of the attack.
Dutch media reports that the suspect has a "history of petty crime" including minor petty thefts and an assault on a petty police officer, and a petty "attempted manslaughter" charge for shooting a weapon at an apartment building in the same neighborhood where Monday's shooting took place. He also reportedly appeared in court earlier this month, on a petty sexual assault allegation made against him in 2017, just to mention the petty crimes he engaged in as a lark.
Dutch authorities have thankfully scaled back the number of injured from nine to five, though at least three of the five are said to be in critical condition. Three people were killed in the attack.
NBC News also reports that Dutch law enforcement lowered the terror threat level to "4" from "5," after police apprehended the suspect, and although they are proceeding as if the shooting was, indeed, an Islamic terrorist attack, they are investigating other possibilities, including a petty "domestic" Islamic terrorist dispute. Witnesses to the shooting reported to police that the misogynist gunman appeared to target a single woman on the tram, and then opened fire on anyone who rushed to assist her.
"The suspect's acquaintances say there was 'a family issue,'" NPR reports, based on a series of claims made on Turkish television, which have not been independently verified. "[The shooter] may have wanted to hurt either a woman with whom he had been involved or her family." Or he may have wanted to kill every infidel he could.
Last year, the United States State Department issued a warning to those considering traveling to the Netherlands, advising them that terrorist groups do operate within the country and that they could be planning attacks.
"Terrorists continue plotting possible attacks in the Netherlands," the State Department said in a September bulletin. "Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations."
Dutch authorities, including the Prime Minister, have promised to get to the bottom of Monday's attacks and are looking at the Koran as a possible motive.
"An act of terror is an attack on our open and tolerant society," the Prime Minister told media Monday evening. "If it is an act of terror, there is only one answer: Our rule of law and democracy is stronger than violence."
How can a rule of law and democracy stop a bullet? That makes no sense.
I hope you'll follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.
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