6 months Ago
Knife Attack at Parliament
Date Thursday 13 February 2025 Time of the incident The crime occurred in the early evening. B. took a train from Nijmegen to The Hague. He threw his phone and identity cards into a pond near the parliament building before entering it. He confronted a woman at the entrance with a knife around 6:30 p.m., jumped the access gate and broke into the Tweede Kamer.
B. menaced security staff with what they described as stabbing gestures, leading MPs as well as members of the Foreign Affairs committee to flee to a safe room.
Mental Health Under Review
In court, the defense attorney for B. said his client intended to provoke armed officers into shooting him. The Koninklijke Marechaussee, the Cossack-like soldiers who patrol the parliamentary compound, later arrested him without killing him.
More court hearings will put B.'s mental state and his reasoning under closer scrutiny as the case makes its way through the system.
