Man with knife at Amsterdam airport is not terror case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A man was shot in the leg at Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport on Friday after he walked into a military police office and threatened staff with a knife, a spokesman for the military police said.
The incident, which sparked a brief evacuation of parts of the airport, was not being treated as an extremist attack.
“The circumstances are telling us that it has nothing to do with terrorism,” said Stan Verberkt, a spokesman for the Marechaussee military police service whose armed officers patrol Schiphol.
The man was arrested and then taken to an Amsterdam hospital as police began investigations at the scene and travellers who had been ushered outside were allowed back into the airport.