Hostage takers threatened café employees with knives. Four people were threatened with knives by a perpetrator known to the police.
The hostage taker also had a backpack with him. Whether there were actually explosives in it, as was initially feared, still needs to be investigated. 150 apartments in the center of Ede, which is not far from Arnhem and the border with Germany, were evacuated. According to the information, the perpetrator had a criminal record. The hostages were four employees of the party café. There was no direct relationship between them and the alleged perpetrator.