THE HAGUE – Dutch police have stated that they have detained a 26-year-oldman suspected of threatening an attack on the Dutch Parliament or on theorganizer of a blasphemous cartoon competition.
Police didn’t name the targeted organizer by name, however, a video of aPakistani origin youngster has stumped the internet in which he could beseen asking for support to thwart the competition, scheduled to be held inNovember.
In his video, the boy, who apparently seems to be around 26, expressed thathe traveled to the Netherlands from France in the wake of the competitionto be organized by anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders.
The cap-wearing man, in Urdu language, asked the social media buffs to makethe video viral, threatening that he could do anything as he was in closeproximity to Wilder’s office in the Parliament complex where the event isscheduled.
Police did not release any details of the suspect or his identity but saidthe suspect made the threat in a Facebook post, implying that the detaineemight be the man shown in video.
The suspect is likely to be presented before a judge on Friday.