The concert of the American band Allah-Las at the Maassilo club in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was canceled due to a "terrorist threat". In the concert area, the former silo on the Maas River, a van with gas cylinders and a Spanish license plate was found. The police sighted the vehicle around 17.30 pm. The driver of the van was arrested and is now under interrogation. It would be a Spaniard who made the agents suspicious because, writes El Pais, "he came and went" from Maassilo. Dutch TV broadcast images of viewers escorted out by officers wearing bulletproof vests. The police were monitoring the area because the report of a possible attack had arrived from Spain. This was announced by the mayor of the Dutch port city, Labor Ahmed Aboutaleb. According to the latest rumors, the alleged attack is not connected to the Barcelona massacre. The situation around the evacuated room is "under control". This was stated by the police who have lined up the leather heads of the Dis with anti-bullet vests in front of the hall that can accommodate up to 1.000 people. The fear was the repetition of the Bataclan massacre, one of the six targets hit by the Isis cell on November 13, 2015 in Paris. 90 people were killed in the attack.
The American band has revealed that in the past they have received "criticism" from the Muslim community in the United States and around the world for their name. “We chose Allah because we wanted a word that had something sacred, but we didn't want to offend anyone,” the leader of the group Miles Michaud explained in an interview with the Guardian. “When we receive protest emails we respond and explain our reasons. Usually they understand us and everything is resolved. ”A year ago the organizers of an Allah-Las concert in Turkey had decided to cancel the event precisely because of the controversy related to their name. Tonight in Rotterdam, the Los Angeles band was supposed to share the stage with the Dutch-Turkish group Altin Gun.