Dutch police shot and wounded a Syrian man Wednesday who attacked officers making an attempt to arrest him after alarmed neighbors reported that he was standing on an house balcony waving an ax and shouting “Allahu akbar.”
In an assertion, police stated the taking pictures occurred in Schiedam close to the port metropolis of Rotterdam when police tried unsuccessfully to calm the 26-year-old man. When an arrest staff entered the house, the man attacked them and stabbed a police canine, which later died of its accidents.
Schiedam Mayor Cor Lamers issued an assertion saying that the suspect was a Syrian who had been residing together with his father in Schiedam since final yr.
“The man was known to several help organizations but this was an escalation we had not seen coming,” Lamers stated.
The confrontation got here a day after a man in Belgium attacked and killed two feminine police officers and fatally shot a passerby.