The Netherlands: CAR SLAMS INTO ROYAL MOTORCADE

"It was like watching a horror movie"

Netherlands royal slam.jpg2 

 

Story continues below advertisement

Netherlands royal slam

The driver was not named.

3:11pm UK, Thursday April 30, 2009
At least four people are reported to have been killed and around 13 hurt in The Netherlands after a car careered into spectators watching a royal motorcade.

A photographer said the small car appeared to be deliberately driving at high speed toward an open-top bus carrying Queen Beatrix and her family in the western Dutch town of Apeldoorn.

Cynthia Boll said she saw about 20 people "flying through the air"
after the black Suzuki car swerved across police railings, where crowds
of people were waiting to see the queen pass.

The car slammed into a monument. Video footage showed police removing a man from the vehicle and putting him into an ambulance.

Netherlands royal 

Dutch television said two people were killed and about a dozen injured, including children.

Shortly after the incident, investigators and a sniffer dog examined
the car for explosives, then sawed off the roof for a closer inspection.

People were lining railings five or six deep to see the royal family
pass on its way to a palace. The motorcade was part of celebrations for
the annual national holiday of Queen's Day.

Fred de Graaf, the Mayor of Apeldoorn – a town about 55 miles from Amsterdam – said all festivities were being cancelled.

"The scare and the images that the family has seen are reason to break off the official programme," he said.

Holiday events were also called off in the port city of Rotterdam, and more were likely to be cancelled around the country.

Hundreds of thousands of people flock to the main Dutch cities to
celebrate the national holiday, originally intended to celebrate the
birthday of Beatrix's mother Queen Juliana.

The royal family normally spends the day in a small Dutch community.

UPDATE: Dutch Wolf updates us: The name of the attacker is Karst Richard Tates, 38 years old from the city of Huissen in the province Gelderland.

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding. Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.

Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.

Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.

Follow Pamela Geller on
Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.

Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.

Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.

If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.

If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.

0 0 votes
Article Rating
38 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Sponsored
Geller Report
Thanks for sharing!