Oof. I like posting about weird Dutch crime for English-speakers, but this one’s tragic and a real dark corner of social media
back on New Year’s Day, two teenage boys were randomly gunned down here in Amsterdam. Syrian refugees, both of them. That was generally presumed to be fundamental to the motive, although why these boys at that time and place was not at all clear.
But no, the guy who shot them had no idea they were refugees. You see, the guy who shot them got a call. A very threatening call from, supposedly, a criminal. He got angry, told the criminal to “meet him at the bridge” to sort this out, and left the house with his gun that he had for some reason. (There’s very little gun violence in NL, but of course the illegal gun ownership rate is not literally zero.) And when he saw young men hanging out at the bridge, he panicked and shot them.
But the call was never from a real criminal making a real threat. There’s some Dutch live streamer who does prank calls, live on stream. And someone gave him the number of this guy and asked the streamer to give him a real scare.
So an unethical shock streamer scared a random guy into thinking his life was in immenent danger, and that guy had access to a gun, and two random kids got gunned down in the street for existing at the wrong time and place.
https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/237874/om-grap-van-youtubekanaal-aanleiding-doodschieten-onschuldige-syrische-jongens-in-park
back on New Year’s Day, two teenage boys were randomly gunned down here in Amsterdam. Syrian refugees, both of them. That was generally presumed to be fundamental to the motive, although why these boys at that time and place was not at all clear.
But no, the guy who shot them had no idea they were refugees. You see, the guy who shot them got a call. A very threatening call from, supposedly, a criminal. He got angry, told the criminal to “meet him at the bridge” to sort this out, and left the house with his gun that he had for some reason. (There’s very little gun violence in NL, but of course the illegal gun ownership rate is not literally zero.) And when he saw young men hanging out at the bridge, he panicked and shot them.
But the call was never from a real criminal making a real threat. There’s some Dutch live streamer who does prank calls, live on stream. And someone gave him the number of this guy and asked the streamer to give him a real scare.
So an unethical shock streamer scared a random guy into thinking his life was in immenent danger, and that guy had access to a gun, and two random kids got gunned down in the street for existing at the wrong time and place.
https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/237874/om-grap-van-youtubekanaal-aanleiding-doodschieten-onschuldige-syrische-jongens-in-park
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