The suspicion in Amsterdam stabbing the fury was Ukrainian, says the police
A man suspected of stabbing five people in the center Amsterdam Thursday is a 30 -year Ukrainian citizen from the east Donetsk region, local Police said Saturday.
The man is suspected of having wounded five random people, using multiple knives, during a fury stabbed near the busy on Thursday afternoon.
He was quickly arrested after the accident with the help of the bystanders, suffering a leg injury.
The man, whom the police said he had made the fact that he had made the fact that he checked -in a hotel in Amsterdam on Wednesday, will be brought to a judge on April 1 to decide his further detention.
Saturday’s police were not yet clear about the reason for the stabbing and said investigations were underway.
The victims were a 26 -year -old man from Poland, a 73 -year -old Belgian woman, a 19 -year -old woman from Amsterdam and a 67 -year -old woman and a 69 -year -old man, both American citizens.
The Polish man had been released from the hospital by Friday, while the other victims were still in the hospital but in stable conditions, the police said.
In the meantime, the mayor of Amsterdam has given a “hero medal” to an English tourist who chased a Knifeman Through the alleys committed and blocked him on the ground, putting an end to his fury.
The movie shows a man, in casual clothes, kneeling over the suspicion and threatens to give him a punch while waiting for the police while buyers archive him near Dam Square.
In a message on Instagram, the mayor Femke Halsema thanked him for his heroic actions.
He received a badge of a hero in his official residence, he told journalists.
“He is a very modest British man,” Halsema said in Amsterdam News Channel AT5. “He has no desire to become famous. Now he is mainly worried about the victims, he feels responsible for them.”
He said that the man made a decision in “a fraction of a second for which there should be a lot of appreciation”.
