Post by Shuya Katsumoto on Apr 30, 2009 12:57:59 GMT 1
Don't really know if people are bothered with this at all or not, but still I feel the need to post this. Every year we have what we call Queensday in Holland where the royal family visits a town and everyone parties etc. It's a real national party here with singing, drinking, dancing, everywhere. This year however the festivities have ended early as a black car drives through the crowd in Apeldoorn, the town where the royal family is this year, and hits a dozen or more people in the process. He drives onto restricted roads, heads for the bus filled with the royal family but apparently loses control of the vehicle and hits a monument instead. At the moment 2 deaths and around 15 injured have been reported and at most cities all over our country the festivities have slowly ended. For me and our country this is a grim day, that such an event occurs on a symbolic event like today.
It's not certain whether this was an accident, on purpose or a downright 'terroristic' attack. I doubt it's the latter, since the royal family would most certainly have been killed if that were the case. The car came so close that if it had been filled with explosives, the entire family would've died.
Here you can find a movie of the part where the car drives through the crowd, might be slightly shocking... or at least it was for us. I believe CNN has also brought this up already, but I just wanted to let you guys know.
www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2009/week18/Thu12.ruwbeeld_apeldoorn.xml
Just click the play button in the middle. Oh and apparently you still need to show commercial shit from tele2 before such a movie...
Edit:
You can see a better view of what the car exactly does here:
Youtube thingy
Another edit:
A 5 year old child was also hit, which is visible on image below:
www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/ANP-9693485.jpg
Yet another update:
4 people have died and 14 have injured of which 2 police officers. It's been confirmed that this was an attack, so no accident, but there's no indication of any terrorist related incident. Country in mourning.
It's not certain whether this was an accident, on purpose or a downright 'terroristic' attack. I doubt it's the latter, since the royal family would most certainly have been killed if that were the case. The car came so close that if it had been filled with explosives, the entire family would've died.
Here you can find a movie of the part where the car drives through the crowd, might be slightly shocking... or at least it was for us. I believe CNN has also brought this up already, but I just wanted to let you guys know.
www.rtl.nl/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2009/week18/Thu12.ruwbeeld_apeldoorn.xml
Just click the play button in the middle. Oh and apparently you still need to show commercial shit from tele2 before such a movie...
Edit:
You can see a better view of what the car exactly does here:
Youtube thingy
Another edit:
A 5 year old child was also hit, which is visible on image below:
www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/ANP-9693485.jpg
Yet another update:
4 people have died and 14 have injured of which 2 police officers. It's been confirmed that this was an attack, so no accident, but there's no indication of any terrorist related incident. Country in mourning.