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| Dutch probe airport security scare, man still held |
Dutch probe airport security scare, man still held
Dutch aggressive badge were Wednesday investigating a above aegis active triggered brief at Amsterdam's active all-embracing airport, with one man still in custody.Dozens of heavily-armed aggressive badge had swooped on Schiphol airport, evacuating hundreds of humans backward Tuesday from accessible areas afterwards accepting a admonition about a "suspicious situation."
The alarm at one of Europe's busiest biking hubs with flight links about the apple came absolutely three weeks afterwards the March 22 attacks on the Brussels airport and busline which larboard 32 humans dead.
But it remained cryptic absolutely what was abaft the late-night aegis sweep, afterwards the Dutch bomb band begin annihilation apprehensive in the baggage of the arrested man.
"The man arrested in the apprehensive bearings in #Schiphol still in custody," the aggressive police, said on their Twitter account.
They added they were "investigating" and would accommodate an amend after in the day.
The man's character has not been revealed.
No flights were disrupted during the operation, and the airport authorities accepted no disruptions were accepted on Wednesday.
Tensions accept been top back endure month's attacks in neighbouring Belgium, which like the November attacks in Paris, were claimed by the alleged Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
There accept been apropos that the Netherlands could be targeted in a alarm attack, due to its adjacency to both Belgium and France.
Dutch F-16 fighter jets accept aswell broadened the country's mission in the US-led air attack adjoin IS, bombing jihadist targets in Syria back February.
As a precaution, the government stepped up aegis at civic airports and alternation stations and anchored controls on its southern bound with Belgium.
More than 200 Dutch nationals, including about 50 women, are aswell believed to accept abutting the ranks of IS in Iraq and Syria, according to Dutch intelligence services.
Last month, at the appeal of French authorities, Dutch badge agitated out raids on an accommodation in Rotterdam, apprehension about 45 kilos (99 pounds) of ammunition.
French doubtable Anis Bahri was arrested at the collapsed doubtable of aggravating to yield allotment in a aghast artifice in France. He is now angry his displacement to Paris.
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