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Netherlands: 4 years in prison for shooting at Saudi embassy

Dutch court today sentences man to 4 years in prison for shooting several times at its embassy Of Saudi Arabia in The Hague. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture.

On November 12, 2020, Mohamed A., 41, fired 29 shots at the embassy near the city center with a Glock pistol. No one was injured in the blaze, but many bullet marks were left on the building.

«The court sentences him (…) to four years in prison “, the judges said in their statement, as they ruled that the incident was not related to a terrorist act.

“It had already caused damage to the building before”

“He was unhappy with the way he was the embassy was handling a deep desire of his, to visit Mecca and Medina “, they commented, pointing out that the accused had psychological problems. “He went to the embassy more than once trying to get a visa” and “had already caused damage to the building before”, they added in their reasoning.

The previous day, a bomb had exploded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during a ceasefire ceremony on November 11, 1918, attended by several foreign diplomats. Dutch police initially tried to determine if the two incidents were linked.

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