An update on this story. It appears that in the wake of the New Zealand massacre, Dutch authorities are treating all random shootings as if they were perpetrated by white supremacists and “Islamophobes.” It is possible that this shooting in Utrecht was indeed perpetrated by such a person. It is also possible that this was a jihad attack, but churches and synagogues are not being evacuated as a precaution.
“Utrecht shooting: Eyewitnesses describe horror as passengers gunned down on tram,” by Elaine McCahill, Mirror, March 18, 2019 (thanks to Lookmann):
Eyewitnesses have described the terrifying scenes as passengers were gunned down on a tram in a Dutch city this morning.
One person has died and numerous others are injured following the shooting at 10.45am local time in Utrecht.
Police have said they are investigating if there was a “terrorist motive” for the attack and are looking into whether there were multiple gunmen.
Primary schools were placed on lockdown and all mosques in Utrecht have been evacuated as a precaution.
Utrecht University has also closed all its buildings and no one is allowed in or out.
One woman told NRC that a man got up and started shooting “with a big gun”.
She escaped the gun fire by jumping through a smashed window.
“I was in the back of the tram. He shot around, but seemed to be aiming at people sitting on the benches – everyone ducked away,” she said.
“The conductor did not open the doors immediately. Two boys next to me kicked in a window, so I fled outside. More people did that.”
An eyewitness called Jimmy de Koster told RTV he saw saw four men shoot a woman who dropped to the ground as she screamed: “I didn’t do anything”….
WhiteKnight says
Islam is know for its attacks on public transport
Peter says
But also all schools are closed too!!!
Keith Ellerby says
BBC news say the Dutch police are looking for a Turkish man, so a very good chance that he is not a right wing white supremacist.
rbla says
He is a right wing white supremacist. First of all the Turks are white. The small proportion of East Asian genes were overwhelmed by that of all the converted and enslaved non-Muslims from Anatolia and the Balkans. Second what is more right wing than an ideology that justifies slavery, hates Jews and regards women as second class citizens? In addition he is also a right wing white nationalist. Who is more nationalist than Erdogan and his followers who want to restore the Ottoman caliphate?
QED
SoloStiX says
Your an idiot, most people are Muslims there lol, you are clearly a liberal fool that believes only the white race (you know, the one that built and founded America) is the problem, you are clearly on the wrong website and will be known as literally a moron here.
rbla says
Not my fault that you are incapable of understanding irony; undoubtedly a product of our failed education system.
The Roofer says
You mean to say Left Wingers are the ideology that justifies slavery, hates Jews and regards women as second class citizens? Look at the Democrat liberals in the US. They hate EVERYONE who disagrees with them, and they eat their own. Slavery? Fine with the leftists! Genocide? Sex trafficking? All good with the lefties! Go shill somewhere else for the pedophile mohammed.
Peter says
It’s out…….Turkish (new-Dutchman) Muslim!!
Paul says
latest: Dutch police are seeking a Turkish-born man. What a surprise…
https://nos.nl/artikel/2276544-politie-utrecht-zoekt-37-jarige-verdachte-gokmen-tanis.html
tom parry says
time to lock out all non citizen muslims from utrecht , not lock out peope from their lives.
Paul says
It gets worse: at the bottom of the article I linked to, it says the guy was in court 2 weeks ago for a rape he is accused of doing in summer 2017:
Tanis stond twee weken geleden terecht in een verkrachtingszaak, blijkt uit informatie van de rechtbank in Utrecht. Het zou gaan om een verkrachting in de zomer van 2017.
David M says
Yes, typical bearded Muslim terrorist, normal service has been resumed. I’m sure all the Muslims in the world are going to come out & express outrage over this like they did in New Zealand……….not! They won’t say a word.
kuriakose says
Only to say we provoked this attack.
Jayell says
So they’re evacuating the mosques in Utrecht. The Netherlands is a small place, so the bad feeling will spread quickly. Where else will they feel the need to evacuate these ‘places of worship’? Apart from disasters, natural or otherwise, the only occasions I can recall the authorities organising evacuations would be in wartime. Maybe this is a belated official response to an undeclared conflict that’s been going on for quite a long time now – and they can’t claim that no-one told them so.
eduardo odraude says
Is the predicted civil war in European nations coming true? Let’s hope against hope that European authorities realize that censorship of discussion of Islam leads to violence. Why? Because censorship uses force and is itself a kind of violence. And because if people do not have a peaceful way to express their views, they tend to find violent ways. John F. Kennedy: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
The only speech that should be against the law is speech explicitly and specifically calling for illegal violence. Europe, and in particular the European Left, so civilized in other matters, is quite backward and barbarian in its failure to recognize this elementary requirement of civilization. Free. Speech.
eduardo odraude says
The remedy for bad speech is not censorship, but more speech. Wake up, Europe!