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Netherlands: Illegal migrant stabs woman riding a scooter in the neck

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Dutch police on Wednesday arrested a 24-year-old migrant for stabbing a woman in the neck as she rode her scooter down the street in Vlaardigen.

It was 8 o’clock in the morning when police were alerted to the attack. Unfortunately, once police arrived at the scene of the crime the suspect was nowhere to be found. According to police, the victim was immediately treated by emergency services for “superficial” injuries but did not require hospitalization, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.

Prior to the attack, the perpetrator – a migrant with no permanent residence – and the victim had never met each other.

Surveillance footage obtained by police showed that the migrant had been lurking around a neighborhood not far from where the attack had taken place earlier the same morning. Around 7am the migrant was recorded walking around a residential area where he rang the doorbells at several houses.

Once police were able to identify the attacker, a manhunt was launched. Shortly after, they were able to track down him down and make an arrest. At present, it’s still not clear why the migrant decided to attack the random victim. It’s possible that he’s not mentally well.

According to a report from the Ministry of Justice and Security, the number of crimes committed by asylum seekers in the Netherlands in 2019 increased dramatically, up nearly 30 percent from the previous year.  Incidents of fights, acts arson, and hunger strikes at asylum centers also so a 30 percent increase in 2019, compared to the previous year.

Random acts of violence against passers-by have become shockingly common in the Netherlands. In April, an 18-year-old Dutch boy was stabbed to death by a Sudanese asylum seeker while he was cycling to work in the municipality of Oss. The two had never met each other prior to the incident.

Less than a week earlier, a mother and her infant child were forced to undergo a mandatory 14 day quarantine after they were spat on by a pair of foreign men in the municipality of Enkhuizen.

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