Police: in days after Brussels 2000 terror alerts

Gepubliceerd op 26 maart 2016 om 10:52

When the Dutch police have arrived in recent days in 2000 reports on, among other suspects and abandoned suitcases. The fact that there are hundreds of more than normal.

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So Wednesday was part of Zaandam upside after visitors to a McDonalds where a man and woman saw a toilet with " anything with wires . The deposited area was besieged for hours, among others with dogs and helicopters. It proved a false alarm.

Mario Betting, Chief of Service at the National Service Operations Centre (LDOC) says: ,, We look after each attack that the number of terrorism reports from citizens increased enormously. Certainly report the first days after the incident, many people in the police, because they think they see anything suspicious. Sometimes a new message in every few minutes. "

After the attacks in Paris in November, the number of terror alerts in the Netherlands to more than 500 per day. On the day of the attacks in Brussels and two days later the police processed there to more than 650 per day.

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The nature of the notification is in accordance Betting. ,, Short phoned many people because they thought they thought they saw the fugitive Salah Abdeslam after the attacks in Paris. The last few days were a lot of calls about abandoned luggage or suspicious situations.

Some of those reports are very vague. If someone volunteered as an Arab man had been rummaging in his bag. ,, We can not really with it, '' says Betting saying that people should especially keep calling. ,, We are rather a hundred times too many calls than once too little.People must rely primarily on their sense. The analysis is then for the police. "

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