The police in the Netherlands announced on Saturday (November 30th) that they had arrested a man suspected of involvement in the knife attack that left three people wounded the day before on a shopping street in The Hague.
"Following the knife attack at Grote Marktstraat, a 35-year-old man has been arrested in the center of The Hague," the city police said on Twitter, adding that the man was had "no fixed address".
Ivm het steekincident aan from #GroteMarktstraat is in het centrum van #DenHaag zojuist een 35-jarige man aangehouden. From man heeft geen vast woon- of verblijfplaats. Hij wordt overgebracht naar een politiebureau waar hij zal worden gehoord. @PolJanHen
- Politics Den Haag eo (@POL_DenHaag) November 30, 2019"He will be transferred to a police station where he will be interrogated," the police added.
"Too early to speculate"
The police had previously indicated that it was working on "several scenarios" and that it was "too early to speculate" on the possible terrorist nature of this attack.
The three victims were able to return home Friday night after being hospitalized. There are three teenagers, a 13-year-old boy and two 15-year-old girls. According to the police, quoted by the ANP agency, they do not know each other.
Committed a few hours after the one perpetrated in London by a former prisoner convicted of terrorism who stabbed two people to death, the attack caused panic in The Hague.
With Reuters