Dutch gunman storms TV studio
Video: Real drama for Dutch broadcaster as a man with a fake gun demands live airtime.
- Published by David Knox
- on January 31, 2015
Now that this has happened for real, how long before it become a drama plot…?
A man wielding a fake gun has been arrested in a studio of Dutch news broadcaster NOS, causing the main evening bulletins to be cancelled.
Staff were evacuated from a building in the Media Park in the city of Hilversum.
According to NOS director Jan de Jong, a man, carrying what appeared to be a long pistol, had wanted to go to the main evening news studio but instead a guard took him to a studio where daytime bulletins are broadcast.
When the channel came back on the air, it broadcast video of the man wandering about a studio, reportedly demanding airtime.
Armed police then stormed into the studio and overpowered him.
Prosecutors later said that the man, aged 19, was in police custody.
Source: BBC
2 Responses
Scary, hard to tell real life from fiction, bit like Aussie politics ;D
What was he after?