The police assume that the Spoorbrand was set up on 24 June, the NATO summit starting day, to disrupt train traffic. That scenario is “the most likely”, reports the police Thursday afternoon. Fire -speeding agents have been found during the forensic examination, therefore a technical defect or an accident is excluded.
There are no indications that the fire was founded because of copper theft, or that there is a “state actor” behind the crime.
On the day of the fire, outgoing Minister of Justice and Security David van Weel (VVD) said that the cause could be “sabotage.” In the Public Forum on the NATO summit in The Hague, he told reporters: “It could be an activist group. It could be a different state. It could be anything.”
The fire, founded at the track on the Oeverlandenweg in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, has damaged some thirty power cables and considerably disrupted train traffic. From Utrecht and Amsterdam on the day of the fire until late in the evening, no trains to and from Schiphol Airport, due to the power outage that arose.
The police call on some specific witnesses to report. On camera images you can see that a group of three cyclists is cycling along the Adam Smithplein in Amsterdam around 03.00, the time of the fire. The police also want to get in touch with a taxi driver who dropped a passenger at the same time and place.