Dutch police prevented terrorist attacks
The Dutch police may have prevented a major terrorist attack. They arrested seven Dutchman of Moroccan origin. The group had wanted to kill as many people as possible.
One of those arrested should be related to a terrorist who was involved in the March 2004 Madrid attacks on suburban trains in which 191 people were killed.
In the wake of the arrests were in Amsterdam been searched several houses and apartments. Investigations and searches, have there been in the Belgian capital Brussels, the report said. More arrests were not excluded.
According to the Amsterdam police chief Bernard worlds, the investigators were late on Wednesday evening from an anonymous tipster, who used a prepaid cell phone, warned by telephone. The informant from Brussels have called the names of three men, a precise description of person and attack targets, including an Ikea furniture store and an electronics market.
After it became clear that one of the detainees may have had links to terrorists in Madrid, decided to evacuate Police worlds the Arena shopping mall and the area around the Ajax football stadium spacious blocked. The transactions were examined on Thursday on charges. Also a concert hall has been verified. Whether explosives were found, remained unclear.
Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen said, "the information that we received were very specific, and therefore we did not want the lives of people who shop there, endanger."
On Friday morning, the Ikea store was finally open again with an hour's delay. The tension was felt, however, continued. About the site in the southeast of the city, a helicopter circled, and military police patrolled the streets.
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