Every week there are ten signals of terrorist threat within – AT5

every week There are ten signals of terrorist threat within the Amsterdam police and justice. “It takes a lot of time all of them to check. There is a team of 40 detectives, this team I had six years ago not yet’, says public prosecutor Theo Hofstee.

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‘These signals can be quite small. Then, analysts have quickly that is not true. After research is often quick to the conclusion that it was a false alarm.” But sometimes there is a signal within that, however, very concrete, such as in the run-up to Sensation this year in the Amsterdam Arena.

There were strict measures have been announced, so if it’s not parked in the hotel garage. “It was a very concrete, the measures are quite visible. You look to the weak points of a building, even though you don’t know what exactly what the plan would be, ” says Hofstee. ‘There are so many cars, it is difficult to all to check. If there is a bomb below it, then it’s all touch. So the advice was to that aspect as much as possible to take away.’

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And then to make a similar decision, found Hofstee in this case is not difficult. ‘It is well sorted out, there we get good advice on. The tricky thing is then, how do we that good? If people ask: ‘If I go, do I run the risk?’ How answer you that? Because you are doing something but you ordered the event. To explain this, is the trickiest. It turned out there understood.”

The whole conversation with the officer of Justice, Theo on such themes as the threat of terrorism, killings in the city, confused persons, and discrimination on social media is here to see: