Dutch media, citing security sources, report that the man who stabbed five people in Amsterdam is from the Donetsk Region.
Police in the Netherlands have identified the suspect in the Amsterdam knife attack that left five people seriously injured. According to local media reports on Friday, security sources identified the suspect as 30-year-old Roman D., originally from the Donetsk Region, which voted to join Russia in 2022.
On Thursday, a man armed with knives attacked passersby in Amsterdam’s city center, injuring five. An unnamed tourist, believed to be from the UK, apprehended the suspect after chasing and restraining him.
De Telegraaf reports that the alleged attacker possessed false identification and refused to provide his real information. He is currently hospitalized under police guard. Authorities state that his motives are unknown and that his victims appear to have been chosen randomly.
The victims include two Americans, a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man, a 26-year-old Polish man, a 73-year-old Belgian woman, and a 19-year-old local woman.
Police and officials have lauded the tourist who stopped the suspect as “a true hero,” but have withheld his identity. They also cautioned the public against citizen’s arrests, stating that “most people are not trained for this sort of thing.”