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Police investigate motives of Dutch teen brandishing fake pistol who demanded airtime on TV
Published December 09, 2015
Police arrived to storm the studio out of sight of the camera and order 19-year-old gunman to drop his weapon, after he stormed into the headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS demanding TV airtime Thursday night Jan. 29, 2015, is shown on video recorded at the time as he waits at the TV station broadcast studio in Hilversum, Netherlands. The man claims to be from a "hackers' collective," according to a reporter who spoke to the man during his raid on the TV station offices, causing NOS to go off-air for around an hour. (AP Photo / NOS TV) NETHERLANDS OUT - TV OUT (The Associated Press)
A 19-year-old student carrying a fake pistol who forced his way into the Dutch national broadcaster and demanded airtime is in custody as police investigate his motives.
Prosecutors and police have not identified the man who was seen pacing around a TV studio at the NOS broadcaster's headquarters in the city of Hilversum Thursday night holding what appeared to be a pistol with silencer. However, Dutch media widely reported his name as Tarik Z., a student at the Delft Technical University.
The incident did not appear to have links to Islamic terror. In a statement issued in the early hours of Friday, Minister for Security and Justice Ivo Opstelten said initial investigations suggested the teenager was acting alone.
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