Aggressive man shouting “Allahou Akbar” arrested on Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris

Travelers heard the man, agitated, shout “Allahou Akbar”, causing panic on board the high-speed train this Wednesday.Some passengers heard him shout “Allahou Akbar”. Dutch police announced on Wednesday that they had arrested a man who behaved “aggressively” towards travelers on a Thalys train connecting Amsterdam to Paris. No weapons were found, however, and no one was injured in the incident, which resulted in the temporary shutdown of the high-speed train at Rotterdam station, the port city police said. “On a train from Amsterdam to Paris, a 28-year-old man behaved aggressively this morning [Wednesday]. Travelers heard the man shouting Allahu Akbar, and panic broke out briefly, “said Rotterdam law enforcement officials on their Twitter account.“The man has been arrested and the police are investigating the case. There were no injuries and no weapons were found, “they added. According to Dutch public television NOS, the police said that the man “had behaved in a confused manner and shouted strange things”.The Dutch national railway company NS said the train, which had left Amsterdam at 6.15 a.m., was stopped for half an hour in Rotterdam, before continuing on to Paris. In 2015, a few months before the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, Ayoub El Khazzani, mounted in Brussels station, opened fire inside the Thalys, armed with a Kalashnikov and nine full magazines. He injured two people before being overpowered by passengers, including the United States military on vacation. The foiled attack was even the subject of a film directed by Clint Eastwood, “3:15 pm for Paris”.The radicalized man had previously visited Syria, where he had been spotted by Abdelhamid Abaaoud, coordinator of the Islamic State group’s cell that struck France and Belgium in 2015 and 2016.

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