Police Almere is doing research to clown with knife – NU.nl

The incident took place on 4 October, but the parents and the boy decided Monday only to report the incident.

The police took the case seriously, a spokesperson NU.nl. “This is in our eyes no joke, this is serious threat" to them. "Children will get sleepless nights.”

It is not the only mention of a scary clown over the last week with the police in Almere is received. Multiple people called the police that they have a scary clown with a knife. It comes to notifications in the Muziekwijk, Literatuurwijk, and the Stripheldenbuurt.

Stephen King

The police after the notification, a call on Facebook to warn people for the clown. Citizens are also advised 112 to call when they suspect.

The clown looks like Pennywise, the demonic clown from the horror movie IT to the book by Stephen King. He has a white face with a red krullenpruik and bloedstrepen on his face.

Clown in Arnhem

Almere is the only city where the police last week received notification of scary clowns. In Arnhem ran it last weekend, three teenage boys on the street with a clownsmasker on and with a plastic nepmes in the hand.

A woman spoke to the three on the knife, and the boys the mask afdeden and the knife away stopped. The woman made report of the incident to the police, which speaks of “ballorigheid. We hope, however, that we are in the run up to Halloween and more of this kind of incidents get,” said a spokesman of the police East-Netherlands.

Schools closed

It is not clear whether there is a correlation with the series ‘clownsightings' in the U.S. the past few weeks. In countless states, there were strange incidents with clowns from the bushes jumps, people threatened or children is difficult fell.

In Ohio, two weeks ago, even schools closed after a dreigclown had hinted at an attack on a school.

By: NU.nl