A man who stabbed one person and wounded another in Rotterdam on Thursday evening is suspected by Dutch investigators of a terrorist act. During the attack, he shouted Allahu akbar (Arabic for God is great). The AP agency informs about it today.
“The public prosecutor’s office currently suspects a 22-year-old man from Amersfoort of murder and attempted murder with a terrorist motive,” the public prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The prosecutor’s office also said that the investigation so far has revealed “indications that the suspect was driven by ideology.” She specifically mentioned that he shouted a sentence in Arabic several times during the attack.
The attack took place near the Erasmus Bridge, which connects the northern and southern parts of the port city. The man, whose exact identity has not yet been disclosed by the police, attacked two men with knives one after the other. A 32-year-old man from Rotterdam lost his life, a Swiss man a year older was injured, but he had already been released from the hospital.
The suspect was overpowered by passers-by and the police shortly after the crime. Sports instructor and kickboxing coach Reniël Renato David Litecia, who was walking by on Thursday evening, at first thought he witnessed a fight. But when he got closer, he discovered that it was “a man with two large knives who was stabbing another young man”. Litecia managed to disarm the attacker with the help of a stick.
Source: www.tyden.cz
