Dutch police said today the terror threat facing the Netherlands port city of Rotterdam is now over following the arrest of a suspect. ABC reports.
Rotterdam Police Chief Frank Paauw told reporters that a 22-year-old man was arrested in North Brabant province this morning over suspicion of being “involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack.” Spanish authorities had shared “specific” information on the threat with Rotterdam police, he said.
“There is no threat because we have arrested a suspect and the information about the threat was so specific on the location of the event that with that arrest we can conclude that the threat is gone,” Paauw told reporters.
The man was arrested during a police a raid at his house, which Rotterdam police said they searched “extensively.”
A concert scheduled for Wednesday night at the Maassilo venue in the south of Rotterdam was the center of the potential terror threat. Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said during a press conference Wednesday night that Spanish intelligence services provided Dutch authorities with information about the potential terror threat in Rotterdam, after attacks left more than a dozen people dead in Spain last week.
American band Allah-Las, which was supposed to perform at the Maassilo Wednesday night, cancelled its show there “due to a potential terror threat.”