Dutch police arrested Tanis Gokmen, the Turkish citizen suspected of being the perpetrator of the shooting that took place today in Utrecht, the Netherlands, which left three dead and at least five injured. This was reported by the Dutch police in a note on his Twitter profile. At the moment it is not yet clear the motive for the gesture and whether it is a terrorist attack. According to the Turkish news agency "Anadolu", the man acted for "family reasons". However, according to Dutch media reports, the man had fought in the past in Chechnya and had already been arrested a few years ago for alleged ties to IS and then released. The last relationship with the Dutch judicial authorities dates back to March 4 when Gokmen Tains was summoned by the judicial authorities for a rape case, for which no indictment would follow. The Utrecht shooting follows the massacre that took place last Friday, March 15, in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, where the white supremacist Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian, shot dead at least 50 people and wounded them. others 30.
On the Telegram channels affiliated to the Islamic State an appeal was made to "spill the blood of the crusaders" in response to the attacks in New Zealand.
Yesterday, March 17, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, broadcast part of the video shot by Tarrant during the attack during an event of his election campaign. Erdogan then said: "All world leaders, all organizations, starting with the United Nations, consider it an attack against Islam and Muslims, but not them who is a Christian terrorist".