Dutch tram gunman to be charged with terrorist killings
Prosecutors and police are still investigating whether the suspect, previously identified as Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis, acted out of a single terrorist motive or whether from personal problems in combination with radicalised ideas. – AFP pic, March 21, 2019.
DUTCH prosecutors are to charge the suspect in a gun attack in a packed Utrecht tram with “terrorist” killings, saying he will appear for the first time before a judge tomorrow. “The 37-year-old suspect will appear before a judge on Friday, charged with multiple murders with terrorist aims, as well as attempted murder and a terrorist threat,” the public prosecution service said in a statement today.
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