Dutch broadcasting network taken hostage

**Cohors_Evocata** · January 29, 2015, 03:00 PM

http://nos.nl/artikel/2016194-nos-re...endringer.html (Warning: it's all in Dutch)

Around 8 p.m. local time (at the same time as the news is usually broadcast) an unknown man armed with a pistol entered the broadcasting station of the Dutch NOS and demanded he be given air time to broadcast a speech of his. The man claimed that he (as well as other members of an as of yet unidentified hacker group) had 'important things to say', that they 'had been hired by intelligence agencies' and that they had heard things 'which casted doubt on society'. (I'm probably mistranslating this to some extent, the original quotes are in the link (in Dutch ofc)). The man apperantly carried a letter talking about explosives as well, so the police are searching the building.

The man has been arrested by the police. No shots have been fired. Since the man was in the studio with a running camera at the time of the arrest, there is a video of him walking around, talking to a hostage about the situation and his eventual arrest.

If this is insufficient information for a discussion, please close this thread. It's the first time I'm creating one of these, so I don't really know what I should add.

EDIT: The letter seems to have claimed there are eight nuclear bombs spread throughout the country, so the police searching the building might be unrelated to the supposed explosives.

EDIT 2: link to article in English: http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/01/29/arm...ation-hostage/

**Flavius Julius Nepos Augustus** · January 29, 2015, 03:02 PM

Your quotes are good.
Hope he is just crazy. (and it looks like that).

Actualy I wanted to hear his speech

**TASS07** · January 29, 2015, 03:08 PM

So do we know anything about the "corner" that he was coming from?

**Cohors_Evocata** · January 29, 2015, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by TWmodding

Your quotes are good.
Hope he is just crazy. (and it looks like that).

Actualy I wanted to hear his speech

Yeah, I'm kinda curious as well. Don't expect it to be much of significance, but who knows?

**Condottiere 40K** · January 29, 2015, 03:10 PM

Too many smurf berries.

**Flavius Julius Nepos Augustus** · January 29, 2015, 03:15 PM

"North african who lost his parents not long ago"

**snuggans** · January 29, 2015, 03:24 PM

so uhh, did he get to say anything?

**Cohors_Evocata** · January 29, 2015, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by snuggans

so uhh, did he get to say anything?

nope, he was arrested before he got his chance to shine, I'm afraid.

**Flavius Julius Nepos Augustus** · January 29, 2015, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by snuggans

so uhh, did he get to say anything?

"The things that are going to be said [pause] - those are very large world affairs. We were hired by the security service."

"Illuminato confirmed?" got me roling

I say a depressed psycho who plays a lot of GTA V who reads a lot of conspiracy theories

**Kyriakos** · January 29, 2015, 03:32 PM

He didn't wear a mask, and had no knives.

N00b

**lolIsuck** · January 30, 2015, 02:35 PM

His gun was fake and he made fake threaths, not really anything to spend too much time on.

**Aikanár** · January 30, 2015, 03:28 PM

Indeed, as it has turned out, nothing political here.

Moved from the Mudpit to the TD.

**Arto** · January 30, 2015, 04:10 PM

Seems he was a student at the Technical University Delft and part of a fraternity, reaction of the frat leader: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/co...caster/co4zr63