Police officers work near the site of a stabbing on a shopping street in The Hague
AMSTERDAM, Dec 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Dutch police said there was no evidence that a man arrested on suspicion of stabbing three people in the Hague had a terrorist motive.
Three teenagers were hurt in the incident on Friday evening on a busy shopping street. Police said the suspect, a 35-year old man arrested at a homeless shelter on Saturday, had been interrogated.
“Preliminarily there have been no signs found that would point to there having been a terrorist motive,” Hague police said in a statement. “What the motive was, then, is still being investigated.”
On Friday evening, three minors — a 13-year-old boy and two 15-year-old girls — had been stabbed at the Hudson’s Bay department store in The Hague’s Grote Markt shopping district.
The area was particularly crowded due to Black Friday sales.
Coming hours after a terrorist-inspired stabbing in central London, rumors began to circulate that the incident in the Netherlands may have been a similar situation.
The three victims were treated in a local hospital and have since been released. — NNN-AGENCIES