Student held in school shooting threat
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April 23, 2013, Tuesday
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DUTCH police arrested a former student at a British school in the Netherlands yesterday in connection with a threat to go on a shooting spree that saw armed police deployed and schools closed.
Police in the university city of Leiden, just northeast of The Hague, confirmed one person had been arrested following the threat to "shoot my Dutch teacher and as many students as I can" made on an Internet site over the weekend.
"We have been informed that a former student of the British School in the Netherlands has been arrested in connection to threats made against a Dutch school in Leiden," said a statement issued by the school.
The British School in Voorschoten said the pupil was expelled in October 2011 "after incidents regarding his behavior and has therefore not attended the school for over a year."
Police informed the school that there was never a threat to the school or to its students, the school said, adding that it had remained open yesterday.
Founded in 1931, the expensive private school hosts students of 80 different nationalities, according to its website.
Authorities in Leiden decided late Sunday night to close secondary schools to thousands of pupils following a tip-off by Swiss police following the threat.
"I will shoot my Dutch teacher and as many students as I can," said the anonymous message in English on the US-based online forum 4chan.org.
"It's at a school in the Dutch city of Leiden" it said, chillingly adding "for more proof, I will be using a 9mm Colt Defender."
"Oh, and I'm using a proxy, the police is not gonna find me before tomorrow," it ended.
In a statement late Sunday, law officials said they did not yet know against which school the threat had been made and warned parents not to send their children to class.
Police in the university city of Leiden, just northeast of The Hague, confirmed one person had been arrested following the threat to "shoot my Dutch teacher and as many students as I can" made on an Internet site over the weekend.
"We have been informed that a former student of the British School in the Netherlands has been arrested in connection to threats made against a Dutch school in Leiden," said a statement issued by the school.
The British School in Voorschoten said the pupil was expelled in October 2011 "after incidents regarding his behavior and has therefore not attended the school for over a year."
Police informed the school that there was never a threat to the school or to its students, the school said, adding that it had remained open yesterday.
Founded in 1931, the expensive private school hosts students of 80 different nationalities, according to its website.
Authorities in Leiden decided late Sunday night to close secondary schools to thousands of pupils following a tip-off by Swiss police following the threat.
"I will shoot my Dutch teacher and as many students as I can," said the anonymous message in English on the US-based online forum 4chan.org.
"It's at a school in the Dutch city of Leiden" it said, chillingly adding "for more proof, I will be using a 9mm Colt Defender."
"Oh, and I'm using a proxy, the police is not gonna find me before tomorrow," it ended.
In a statement late Sunday, law officials said they did not yet know against which school the threat had been made and warned parents not to send their children to class.
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