The victims of the shooting on Friday afternoon in Oosterhout are a Turkish and Moroccan Dutchman. The mosques in Oosterhout confirm that where the men went.
The Moroccan Mosque Almohsinin confirms that one of the victims is from her community. Secretary Yousef Elhadjoui calls the events ‘incredibly tragic’. The mosque opened its doors on Friday evening so that people could support each other.
A spokesperson for the Turkish Ahmet Yesevi Mosque tells Omroep Brabant that one of the deceased is a visitor to the mosque who regularly came to the Friday evening prayer.
The spokespersons cannot tell anything about the background of the shooting. The police, too, cannot or will not say anything about that.