The house in Hoofddorp, where an arrest team overpowered a man who was at risk of firearms last night, did not belong to him. When he realized that the police had him in their sights, he fled into the house and hit the resident in the face.
Several witnesses raised the alarm with the police when they saw a man with a firearm getting into a car at the Skagerhof shopping center around 6.20 pm. Officers respond to the report, which involves searching for the car in question from the air.
It is found not much later at the nearby Engelsholm. There are three Hoofddorp residents (aged 20, 15 and 13 years old) in the car at the time, but not the man who was seen with a weapon at the shopping center earlier in the evening.
Police on the heels
Because the police find two fake weapons in the car, they decide to arrest the occupants. While handcuffing the three, they spot the man they were actually looking for. When he realizes that the police are after him, he flees into a house in the street and assaults the resident in the process.
Because it concerns a man who is at risk of firearms, the police calls the Special Interventions Service (DSI) and a dog handler. Eventually the arrest team invades the house and also arrests the fourth man, a 39-year-old Hoofddorper. When they search him, it turns out that he is not carrying a firearm or a fake firearm.
The four are taken to the station, where they are interrogated. They’re still stuck. The battered resident was not seriously injured. An air ambulance was called in as a precaution, but treatment was not necessary.