The hostage-taking that was underway Tuesday night at an Apple Store in Amsterdam ended when the armed man who broke into the place was controlled, Dutch police said.
The Dutch Police confirmed the release of all the hostages who were held in the Apple Store in Amsterdam by “a person with a firearm”, and has announced the arrest of the perpetrator, whose motives are still unknown.
The man “is lying on the street and a robot examines him for explosives,” the police stated on Twitter.
He added that the last hostage held in the store was brought to safety.
“Since the start of the hostage taking at the Leidseplein Apple Store, several people were able to leave the premises,” the police had previously reported on Twitter.
#International ???? Hostage taking in Apple Store building, Amsterdam
Videos distributed on social media by residents of Leidseplein show, through a window, a man holding a person at whom he points a gun. pic.twitter.com/kc2d09S5UR— TSM News (@tsmnoticias) February 22, 2022
Images filmed by Internet users circulated despite everything on the networks, showing an armed man and another unarmed man. According to the medium AT5, several witnesses heard shots in the store.
The police had asked Internet users to be careful in publishing images, “for the safety” of the people held.
“A hostage taking is happening at this moment in the Apple Store on Leidseplein”, one of the main squares of the city, the institution had previously indicated.
The police had received a complaint from a armed robbery on site at 5:40 p.m. (4:40 p.m. GMT). The robbery would then have turned into hostage taking. (I)
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