NETHERLANDS: “Allahu Akbar” shouting Muslim invader, 22, arrested in stabbing spree that killed one and seriously injured another

The Rotterdam Public Prosecution Service said in a statement that investigations into the stabber, whose identity has not been released, uncovered “indications that the suspect may be “ideologically” (aka Islamic terror) driven. For example, he “Allahu Akbar” a number of times during the commission of the crimes.”

European Conservative One man was murdered and another left seriously injured in the port city of Rotterdam last Thursday night. Police report that a knife-wielding suspect attacked a man in an underground car park, before moving up to one end of the landmark Erasmus bridge..

Witnesses reported the assailant shouted “Allahu akbar” (‘God is great’) and sought more victims at random. As bystanders prepared to defend themselves using chairs from a nearby restaurant, 32-year-old fitness instructor Reniël Renato David Litecia disarmed the attacker using two parts of a broken exercise stick.

While a possible Islamist motive has been noted, police representative Wessel Stolle stated that “we look into all possible scenarios,” with the assailant yelling the telltale phrase forming “part of the investigation.”

The suspect, who lives in the central city of Amersfoort, has previous convictions for violent crimes, prosecutors said in a statement, nearly killing his own mother only two years ago by stabbing her in the neck.

The Dutch government’s terror threat level is currently set at four out of a possible five, meaning that “there is a realistic possibility that an attack will take place in the Netherlands,” the national counterterrorism coordinator said in a statement in early August.