Several people were held hostage this Saturday in Ede, in the center of the Netherlands, after a man entered Café Petticoat, a small nightclub located on Nieuwe Stationsstraat, in a building in the city center of this municipality of approximately 120,000 inhabitants.
While the establishment closed at 4 a.m., the police were alerted around 6 a.m., according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, that a man armed with firearms and explosives had entered the Petticoat and was holding back the last employees present.
Several special police units were deployed to the scene, police said in a statement posted on social media. She adds that 150 houses were evacuated as a precaution. No trains run between Barneveld-Zuid and Ede-Wageningen either. A negotiator is on scene. In a message on