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On the Uithof, the campus of Utrecht University, the police scam a few buildings on Friday afternoon. This happened after two reports that “an armed person” would be in one of the buildings. That is what police spokesman Gijs van Nimwegen says on Friday evening NRC. The police have not found anything and assume false alarm. The university will open the buildings again tomorrow morning.
The police spokesman has heard sounds that “who knows could be a joke or something like that”. “That doesn’t matter to us as emergency services at the start of such an investigation,” he says. “We prefer to conclude later: it might be a joke, but we at least scaled up enough. Then we say: if we had taken it seriously.” The detectors take the police into account in the investigation.
The reports arrived at the police around two in the afternoon. At seven o’clock the police announced that the situation was under control. “It is a complicated building complex, because the buildings [van de faculteiten Natuur- en Sterrenkunde en Bètawetenschappen] Being interconnected, “the spokesperson explains.” You can easily get back from A to B, from B to C and back. So we had to comb the buildings. “
The students present in the faculty buildings, which lie between the botanical gardens of the university and A28 motorway, were asked to leave the buildings quietly, the police said. NRC Saw how people came out one by one. Buses and fast tram no longer drove this part of the process for some time, hundreds of students were waiting at the stops. In the meantime, public transport is running again, the police report. Guardians were set up for some closed entrances.
The police were present in large numbers. In the surrounding streets there were also men with gray balaclavas from the Special Interventions Service (DSI), which must fight terrorism and coarse violence. They got back to their off -roads around six in the evening and left.
With the cooperation of Sander Voormolen.
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