Uk - Horrific Stabbing & other events

AMSTERDAM (AP) — A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people — including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland — in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street, Dutch police said.

The attack lasted several minutes before the assailant was stopped by a passerby near the city's Dam Square in the late afternoon. Police cordoned off the area and several ambulances and a trauma helicopter were called to the scene.

Authorities said in a statement that no motive had been established for the attack, but that police were considering a scenario where the man targeted victims at random.

The victims were identified as a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year old man from the United States, a 73-year-old woman from Belgium, a 26-year-old man from Poland and a 19-year old Dutch woman from Amsterdam.

“The police investigation is in full swing and has full priority at the moment. We hope to soon get more clarity about the background of this horrible stabbing," Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said in a statement. Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and loved ones,”

The assailant was injured when he was overpowered by a bystander. “The suspect was detained with the help of a civilian,” police spokesperson Eline Roovers told The Associated Press.

Last year, the city experienced several stabbings attributed to people with mental health issues. Amsterdam set up a hotline last month for residents to report concerns about irrational behavior. The reporting mechanism was recommended after an investigation showed that a man was stabbed to death by his neighbor.

Meanwhile, gateway drugs are still abundant in the Netherlands.

 
This happened at my son’s school on Friday. They both saw him walking around the school waving the knife. My youngest son said he looked like a zombie walking round. The school went into lockdown till the armed police turned up.
 
How does this keep happening, it is police duty to make sure to safeguard the lives of pedestrians by closing streets and surrounding streets with checkpoints.
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'It was jam packed we were like sardines and then we heard beeping and screaming. When we looked up there was a black people carrier driving straight towards us.
 
A recent stabbing in Edinburgh, Scotland, is given a sanitized version by SkyNews, while WJ fills in the details left out 🤫

Emergency crews, including firearms officers, were deployed to the Calder area of the Scottish capital on Monday morning.


Jack Davis, March 3, 2026, at 12:57 pm

A black man caused panic in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Monday after brandishing knives in public, resulting in two people being injured.

The suspect, who reportedly wielded two knives, was later arrested, according to Sky News.

He was taken into custody after a lockdown in the Calder Gardens section of Edinburgh.

A report from the Telegraph said the suspect was presumed to be from Somalia, but there was no official confirmation.

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The incident, which occurred at roughly 8:30 a.m. local time, saw two people injured, with police waiting outside a multi-story apartment building until about 3:30 p.m. when the suspect was apprehended.

Police said two individuals were taken to a hospital with “non-life-threatening injuries.”

One man reportedly suffered an injury “consistent with being stabbed,” while a woman suffered a laceration to her head which was, “not believed to be caused by a bladed weapon.”

Authorities said the incident was not terrorism-related.

The Daily Mail reported that damage to a local shop was connected to the event.

The outlet noted how multiple individuals said the suspect tried to enter a nursery, but was eventually chased away before smashing up the local business.

Chief Inspector Scott Kennedy of the Scotland police said: “I’d like to thank the public for their assistance and patience while we dealt with this incident.

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Kennedy added, “I understand what happened was alarming for the local community and I want to reassure the public there is no ongoing wider risk.”
 
Prince George, Alberta.



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A transgender father, Alice Michael Attwood, has been sentenced to only five years in prison by an Alberta provincial court judge for the brutal stabbing of his two young children.

This was just the sentencing of the prior attack on his children:

In the ruling, In the ruling, Justice J. Sihra emphasized that the five-year sentence was to serve as a “deterrence” due to “the gravity of the offences.” emphasized that the five-year sentence was to serve as a “deterrence” due to “the gravity of the offences.”

5-years on account of "the gravity of the offence," just what planet does this judge live on? My my, what a deterrence. :umm:

Edit: did not see the UK part on the thread, yet it happens everywhere.
 
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