Rotterdam
Dutch police in Rotterdam have arrested five men on suspicion of planning a terror attack. As yet they are unidentified. The arrests were made today. According to De Telegraaf, at least one of the men is a Syrian refugee. Translation by Fousesquawk.
https://www.dvhn.nl/binnenland/Vijf-arrestaties-in-terrorisme-onderzoek-Rotterdam-24005254.html
Five arrests in terrorism investigation Rotterdam
The police arrested five terrorism suspects on Saturday. In the morning, four were arrested in Rotterdam. A fifth during the day. Where (exactly) the arrests were made has not been reported.
They are suspected of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist crime. Immediately after the arrests in the morning, the locations where the detentions were made were searched. Four arrested men are between 20 and 30 years old and come from non-Western countries. Nothing further is known about the fifth.
The investigation will continue in the coming days, the police reported. "The emphasis is on further research into the nature and scale of the terrorist threat." The police can not say anything else.
In June two men were arrested in Rotterdam on suspicion of preparing terrorism and membership of a terrorist organization. It is believed they wanted to attack the security services in the Netherlands.
In September, seven men were arrested, who according to the Public Prosecution, wanted to commit a major terrorist attack on an unnamed event. Two of these men come from Rotterdam and one from Vlaardingen.
** Update: Below is a report from De Telegraaf. Reporters interviewed the wife of one of the suspects, a Syrian refugee.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2968393/vrouw-opgepakte-terreurverdachte-ik-weet-van-niks
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Wife of arrested terror suspect: 'I know nothing about it'
By PAUL ELDERIN
ROTTERDAM - The young woman of one of the four terrorist suspects arrested in the Rotterdam region, opens the door broken early Saturday morning but already repaired.
She has a son on the arm. Her little daughter beckons with a smile that the reporter must come in. A friend with baby is also in the flat. In the corner is a Christmas tree with flickering red lights.
'Refugees'
They hardly speak Dutch. According to neighbors, they are Syrian refugees who came to live on the 5th floor in a fifteen storey apartment in the Rotterdam Ommoord-Prins Alexander suburb a year ago.
The fear and despair are in the eyes of the mother to read. "We were all asleep when this morning suddenly police rushed in with a lot of banging. My husband was taken out of bed and taken away. I do not know why, " she says via an interpreter on the phone. She does not want to say where they come from.
Scary
According to a neighbor, the man works as a mechanic in a car garage in the neighborhood. "Pretty scary that this happens so close. I hope that no explosives are found. Soon our gallery will explode here. No, we did not have real contact with that family. "
A Dutch neighbor in the multicultiflat has seen it all tonight. She knows it well: "A terrorist has been carried away with a bag over his head. As many as twenty heavily armed officers came into their flat and I heard a lot of shouting and screaming."
Wife of arrested terror suspect: 'I know nothing about it'
By PAUL ELDERIN
ROTTERDAM - The young woman of one of the four terrorist suspects arrested in the Rotterdam region, opens the door broken early Saturday morning but already repaired.
She has a son on the arm. Her little daughter beckons with a smile that the reporter must come in. A friend with baby is also in the flat. In the corner is a Christmas tree with flickering red lights.
'Refugees'
They hardly speak Dutch. According to neighbors, they are Syrian refugees who came to live on the 5th floor in a fifteen storey apartment in the Rotterdam Ommoord-Prins Alexander suburb a year ago.
The fear and despair are in the eyes of the mother to read. "We were all asleep when this morning suddenly police rushed in with a lot of banging. My husband was taken out of bed and taken away. I do not know why, " she says via an interpreter on the phone. She does not want to say where they come from.
Scary
According to a neighbor, the man works as a mechanic in a car garage in the neighborhood. "Pretty scary that this happens so close. I hope that no explosives are found. Soon our gallery will explode here. No, we did not have real contact with that family. "
A Dutch neighbor in the multicultiflat has seen it all tonight. She knows it well: "A terrorist has been carried away with a bag over his head. As many as twenty heavily armed officers came into their flat and I heard a lot of shouting and screaming."
* Update (From Dutch News.nl) One of the men is identified as Saleh H. a Syrian refugee with resident status. Another man is identified only as an Egyptian national.
I'm glad the Syrian refugees in Milwaukee aren't like that. One recently opened a nice restaurant, a mix of Syrian and American foods. They were settled with help from some Catholic church ladies, and they are very appreciative.
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