The suspect arrested for the hostage-taking in the Petticoat café in Ede is a 28-year-old resident of this town in Gelderland, the police announced on Saturday. It had previously become known that the alleged hostage-taker had already been convicted of threatening behavior last year. However, nothing has yet been revealed about the hostage-taker's motives, but the police stated there is no indication of a terrorist motive.
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Explosives went off in at least seven places in the Netherlands on Wednesday, the most ever in a single day. Three explosions took place in Amsterdam-Noord, and there were also separate incidents in Rotterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven and Bergschenhoek, according to data collected by ANP since the beginning of 2023. So far this year, there have been 84 deliberate explosions in the Netherlands, putting the country on pace for over 800 explosions this year. In all of last year there were, 378 attacks involving explosions.
An explosive device was found in a house in the Woudstraat in Leeuwarden on Friday evening. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service Defence (EOD) has seized the bomb and is in the process of removing it, a police spokesman reported. He expects that residents of nearby homes who had been evacuated will be able to return soon. Melding van een explosief op de Lekkumerstraat, Leeuwarden. pic.twitter.com/w6awwxnBoI
No treasure was found during a search for items looted by Nazi soldiers during World War II that was rumored to still be buried underground in the village of Ommeren, part of the Buren municipality in the Betuwe region towards the eastern part of the Netherlands. On Monday morning, experts dug one final time at two possible sites, but only an old bullet was found.