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Netherlands: Car packed with gas canisters plows into town hall, explosion kills driver

Aug 22, 2018 10:49 am By Robert Spencer

“The spokesperson told newspaper AD that police had received a threat that could be linked to the incident. But Lingewaard Mayor Marianne Schuurmans told the newspaper said that news of the threat ‘surprised me’. She said: ‘I will have to wait for the police investigation. What I find awful is that someone was killed. My thoughts go out to the family.'”

Let’s see. A car plows into the town hall, which is difficult to reach by car. It isn’t just a car, but it is packed with gas canisters. How common is that? And “police had received a threat that could be linked to the incident.” But the mayor says, “What I find awful is that someone was killed,” referring to the driver.

This could be a jihad attack. It may not be. But given authorities’ increasing tendency to cover up such incidents, we may never know.

“EXPLOSION as car packed with gas canisters PLOUGHS into town hall in Netherlands,” by Paul Withers, Express, August 22, 2018 (thanks to Milad):

A CAR packed with gas canisters has ploughed into the town hall of Lingewaard in the Netherlands, with one exploding and killing the driver.

A fire brigade spokesperson told Dutch broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) the killed motorist was found “in the vicinity” of the car.

The resulting fire caused major damage to the town hall, located in the Gelderland village of Bemmel.

The spokesperson told newspaper AD that police had received a threat that could be linked to the incident.

But Lingewaard Mayor Marianne Schuurmans told the newspaper said that news of the threat “surprised me”.

She said: “I will have to wait for the police investigation.

“What I find awful is that someone was killed. My thoughts go out to the family.”

The police would not confirm or deny that this was a targeted action.

On Twitter, they said: “Let us not speculate on the cause of the fire in the Lingewaard town hall. The police have a firm suspicion about who was involved, which we are currently investigating.”

The car ploughed through the entrance of the town hall at around 2am on Wednesday, with the fire brigade bringing the blaze under control an hour later.

The twon [sic] hall is difficult to reach by car, because of large poles placed in front of the path leading to its entrance….

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  1. StellaSaidSo says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 11:05 am

    I wonder how long it will take for them to tell us the name of the driver…?

    Bet it wasn’t Hendrik or Markus.

    • Andy says

      Aug 22, 2018 at 5:35 pm

      Gotta love that cultural enrichment!

      From the Netherlands to Paris, France

      • Guy Forester says

        Aug 23, 2018 at 4:09 pm

        San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit and a few others are trying desperately to catch up to Paris in their race down the sewer. Decades of leftist liberal progressive idiocy. Either the voters or some kind of automatic bots keep sending the same dolts to run these cities even further into the sewer.

        Can these places be cleaned up and revitalized? I do not know if any society has ever had to deal with this before.

        • Andy says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 4:33 pm

          I know I have NEVER seen this deliberate destruction of our Judeo-Christian Civilization in my life and it makes me angry and sad to see once beautiful lands turned into SHITHOLES.

          If we don’t get common sense leaders for our Judeo-Christian Civilization then we are all going to be going down the toilet bowl.

          These so-called refugees and immigrants don’t give a shit about our Judeo-Christian Culture, Customs and Heritage, They don’t integrate and just want to replace us with there culture where they came from, In most cases Islamic.

          Here is the San Francisco is a Shithole video from PJW.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 9:56 pm

          San Francisco has its problems, God knows, but it is actually the fifth cleanest city in America–per Reader’s Digest, which is quite a conservative publication:

          https://www.rd.com/advice/travel/50-cleanest-dirtiest-cities-in-america/

          Those examples in the video are indeed disgusting, but all came from a three-block area known as the Tenderloin, which has been a problem for well over a century, when San Francisco was quite a conservative town.

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 24, 2018 at 3:40 am

          The Tenderloin has long been the hang-out for panhandlers and drunks in SF, but 15 years ago you could walk thru the streets without stumbling over syringes, faeces, or comatose bodies. I know, because I was there. What has happened to this beautiful city?

  2. Guy Forester says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 11:21 am

    I guess their version of the Reichstag did not work as planned.

  3. Rarely says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 11:37 am

    What a great humanitarian !!! Took action in the middle of the night to target only a “vacant” (presumably) building and the perpetrator — likely a vile human being. Give the guy a statue. Such is the mayor’s line of thinking. A shame he didn’t have a car full of like thinking “humanitarians”.

  4. Rolf Wittwer says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 11:43 am

    If this was an incident only, then the Netherland is in Southamerica.
    Another News is telling us: “..The town hall is DIFFICULT TO REACH BY CAR, because of LARGE POLES placed in front of the path leading to its entrance…”.
    Some more questions?
    Are we REALLY so stupid?

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    This yet another violent and vicious jihadist attack full of jihad minded Muslim who was full of Islamic malice and Islamic irrational hate and delusion. Those gas canisters packed in that car to be used Islamic terror attack is insidious ,malicious and destructive. This is part of a long list of Muslim terrorists attack, this time in the Netherlands,,the next future jihad terror attack is in a place not yet known It will come ,sooner or later ,it’s only a matter of time.

    The jihadist or jihadists attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists in the city of Stockholm, London, Brussels , Paris, Nice, Berlin ,Madrid. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might. Either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.

  6. Jason Bergkamp says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 12:11 pm

    It was a Dutch guy this time, named: Hans van M. A guy with actual mental issues.

    https://www.gelderlander.nl/lingewaard/man-die-aanslag-op-gemeentehuis-pleegde-was-59-jarige-hans-van-m~a5a3dc86/

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 22, 2018 at 9:48 pm

      Could be…

      Of course, we might also find that he recently converted to a certain religion…

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Aug 23, 2018 at 1:21 am

      Now that IS a surprise. Was he a convert to the religion of vehicular jihad, by any chance?

      • tom schreurs says

        Aug 23, 2018 at 2:40 am

        it happened in the middle of the night. nobody was hurt except him. if it was a terrorist attack why do it at night when nobody is around. whats the point. as Jason said a guy with mental issues.

        but then again which Muslim does not have mental issues 😉

        • lebel says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 11:35 am

          He is Muslim, end of story.

          At jihadwatch, the question that we ask is: what is the evidence that whoever did a crime is NOT muslim?

          If you dare provide evidence of this kind, we then just go to our conspiracy theory where the MEDIA is hiding the truth to protect Islam.

          In other words, every crime committed in the world is likely the work of a Muslim until proven otherwise (keeping in mind that the media is hiding the truth about Muslims making any proof suspicious at best)

        • StellaSaidSo says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 7:51 pm

          ‘In other words, every crime…is likely to be the work of a Muslim until proven otherwise…’

          Yep. Sorry lebel, but the statistics bear this out.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 23, 2018 at 10:00 pm

          Why does Lebel keep lying, when Robert Spencer said up front that “this could be a jihad attack. It may not be”? Oh, wait…I just answered my own question.

  7. yohanan says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 12:43 pm

    At most one can speculate about imitating model of jihadi suicide car bombing. But from google news/translate it appears that this was not a jihadi attack.
    >>’Man who committed an attack on town hall was 59-year-old Hans van M.’
    VIDEOBEMMEL / GENDT – The man who drove a car in the town hall of Lingewaard in Bemmel last night, according to unconfirmed reports, the 59-year-old Hans van M .. The man, who by profession was a truck driver, originally comes from Gendt and has been known to healthcare institutions for some time.
    The man would have threatened to do something to himself or others last night.
    – Gelderlander 22-08-18, 14:06 Last update: 16:39 <<
    https://www.gelderlander.nl/lingewaard/man-die-aanslag-op-gemeentehuis-pleegde-was-59-jarige-hans-van-m~a5a3dc86/

    • Rolf Wittwer says

      Aug 22, 2018 at 1:36 pm

      Due to destroying “political correctness”, it’s probably not allowed to ask, if he was a Muslim…

    • lebel says

      Aug 22, 2018 at 3:44 pm

      “the 59-year-old Hans van M ”

      Yeah right, Hans Van MUSLIM!!

      Nice try mass media, we see right through your trickery!

      He is Muslim but the media and the elites are hiding the truth.

      Signed: average jihadwatcher

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 22, 2018 at 10:26 pm

        Because “This could be a jihad attack. It may not be.” is not clear enough for Lebel.

      • Mockingjay says

        Aug 23, 2018 at 7:34 pm

        – If he’s not muslim, he sure as hell is following muslim example – after all, there was a time, not that long ago, when people with actual psychiatric issues NEVER EVER pulled stunts like this….

  8. melek-ric says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 12:55 pm

    “Let us not speculate on the cause of the fire in the Lingewaard town hall.”

    Let us not speculate, for speculation causes racism and intolerance. Let us not think, lest thinking lead to Islamophobia. Let us not ask questions, because questioning is hateful.

  9. Gary says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 2:24 pm

    European human rights chiefs order the British press NOT to reveal when terrorists are Muslims in crackdown on freedom of speech
    •Report out from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
    •Blames increase in hate crimes and racism in UK on the ‘worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in newspapers’
    •Claims Islamophobia rises when media reports when terrorists are Muslim

    By Matt Dathan, Political Correspondent For Mailonline

    Published: 16:43, 5 October 2016 | Updated: 19:54, 5 October 2016 European human rights chiefs have told the British press it must not report when terrorists are Muslim.

    The recommendations came as part of a list of 23 meddling demands to Theresa May’s government on how to run the media in an alarming threat to freedom speech.

    The report, drawn up by the Council of Europe’s human rights watchdog, blamed the recent increase in hate crimes and racism in the UK on the ‘worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians’, although the research was done before the EU referendum campaign had even begun.

    The suggestions sent to Downing Street urging the UK Government to reform criminal law and freedom of the press and in a brutal criticism of the British press, the report recommends ministers ‘give more rigorous training’ to journalists.

    This recommendation was no doubt sent out to all EU countries and was probably only disobeyed when
    the MSM simply had no choice because of the true information on social media and websites such as Jihad Watch.

  10. R Russell says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    I read the headline and my first thought was, ‘oh good’.

  11. Indiana Tom says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 5:30 pm

    “What I find awful is that someone was killed,”
    Muslim or not, this guy sounds like a problem child that was waiting to go off.

  12. AleX says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 7:02 pm

    “What I find awful is that someone was killed. My thoughts go out to the family.”
    Marianne Schuumans heart is broken: the driver couldn’t take more lives with him. Something went wrong with the gas canisters.
    Damn! Bad ignition, bad synchronizing!

  13. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    True and True.

  14. elee says

    Aug 22, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    The government operated that building in trust from the people. That includes a duty to keep & maintain the structure, and (either directly or through an insurer) to collect damages for intentional damage to same. In other words, whoever put him up to this act of vandalism (and attempted murder) should be held liable for all the damages he, the driver, caused.

  15. A.N.Rajaram says

    Aug 23, 2018 at 5:24 am

    The freedom loving citizens of the entire globe must stand up as one man against all type of Jihadi violence. No appeasement will work. Unless this is achieved all people who love freedom will be summarily eliminated. Before it is too late all have to wake up! At the moment Jihadis will be small in number. Wherever Jihadis go into action rampage the, rest of the humanity should muster up courage and pounce upon them before they wreack havoc!

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Aug 23, 2018 at 5:59 am

      You are quite right – people need to wake up, and quickly.

      But random jihad attacks are not something that ordinary citizens can do much about, except protest.

      The jihad that we CAN do something about is the stealth jihad, the gradual infiltration of our institutions by those who intend to do us harm. For example, any Muslim who swears on the Koran – which is a declaration of war against us – is by definition a traitor, and should not be allowed to hold public office. Nor should they be permitted into the police force or the military. We also need to be alert to Muslim infiltration and domination of bureaucracies and of key industries. And, of course, fight against ‘diversity’ quotas – no more lowering of standards or making exceptions.

      And above all, VOTE WISELY.

  16. alex dennison says

    Aug 25, 2018 at 7:35 pm

    “What I find awful is that someone was killed. My thoughts go out to the family.” What an idiot of a mayor. She is concerned about the death of a person killed when trying to kill others.

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