Thread: Paris-bound train evacuated after suspect locks himself in toilet

ROTTERDAM // Police in the Netherlands evacuated a Thalys high-speed train headed for Paris early Friday after a man locked himself in a toilet.

Rotterdam police said that the train and several platforms at Rotterdam Central station have been cleared and negotiators were in contact with the man. No further information on the man was immediately available.

Thalys said in a tweet that, “Security forces have situation under control. No risk for our passengers.”

The incident comes less than a month after passengers subdued a gunman on board a Thalys train in northern France as it was travelling from Amsterdam to Paris.

Dutch television pictures showed heavily armed police with protective shields and equipment scanning the train cars from the platform.

Last week, European rail operators met with interior and justice ministry officials to discuss whether to beef up train security in the European Union.

The consensus from those talks was that no disproportionate and costly security action should be taken that would hinder high-speed international rail traffic in the European Union.

This means it is unlikely that metal detectors would be installed in European stations and that passenger information would not be systematically collected.

Dutch police clear train as man locks himself in toilet | The National

^ A fare dodger?

Overly and instinctive paranoid cultures??

The man has now been arrested, apparently, and according to the Daily Mail, the man was unarmed.

You would normally lock yourself in the loo if you were having a shite?

Maybe just a long poo

Just saying......

Hope I never get the shits on a Dutch train, I might get shot for it.

WE'll all be murdered in our beds! Be very scared.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

This story above seems a non-event.

better to be safe than sorry.

It's all gone quiet since he was arrested.

If it's a non-event, why was he arrested?

I mean if he was just straining his cheeks to launch a stubborn chocolate Bismarck, they wouldn't have arrested him, would they?

Who knows?

&, yes better to be safe than sorry.

When the train stations are like airports, with metal detectors and armed security guards, it'll all seem even more 1984...

Or perhaps they are applying electrodes to his genitals as we speak, in order to entice him to spill the beans on his IS chums.

All very strange that it's gone so quiet.