Horror in Holland: Driver targeted Netherlands Royal Family

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Toronto Star article

Another guy lost his job, and now his life plus six others.

Edit: My local news source (CTV Newsnet) stated that the driver had killed six people, all deliberately. This article states that four were killed. )

It is very sad, I have no idea why the man did it. Becuase he died shortly after his crime, we might never know for sure why he did it.

I think it is a horrible crime, a senseless act.

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so so sad.

so so sad.

It is a sad case.

But the reaction of the media and politicians was so over the top...
most festivities in other cities in the Netherlands were cut short and all the media had special broadcasts.

Queens day is in the first place a big party for all the people, the birthday of the Queen is more of an excuse. It is a day to unwind from normal life. Now it was cut short, while people have enough to worry about such as the financial crisis and the Mexican flu. It was not like cutting the day short would do anything for security. I think there will be more problems in the coming weekends, because people need to unload their tension on another moment.

I think that's the first time anything like this has happened in recent times. We've had political murder, but not really crazy people trying to kill the royal family. I think that cutting the local festivities short was a good plan (and logical) but the rest of the country could've gone on as usual. After all, people do die every day. Atleast /b/ had a field day.