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August 20, 2004
Dutch admit Madrid arrest error

An update on yesterday's post:

BBC: Dutch admit Madrid arrest error

Police in the Netherlands say a man arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Madrid bombings is not the suspect they were looking for.

A spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor's office said the arrested man's fingerprints did not match those of the suspect being sought by Spanish police.

The man was released, then immediately re-arrested on drug charges.

He was one of nine people detained in the southern town of Roosendaal, near the border with Belgium, on Wednesday.

None of the other arrests was linked to the bombings in Madrid earlier this year, which killed 191 people and injured hundreds more.

Posted by Franco Aleman at August 20, 2004 05:04 AM | TrackBack
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"...not the suspect they were looking for."


Damn those Jedi mind tricks...

Posted by: CERDIP [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 20, 2004 10:05 AM

Yep -- we had a guy up in these here parts arrested for the same incident. The FBI said we had fingerprints and all. The Spanish didn't concur -- but then, who can trust the Spanish crime fighters anyway.

And it turned out that the guy really wasn't connected with the Madrid bombing incident at all.

Not the suspect they were looking for.

Posted by: Don [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 20, 2004 01:13 PM


Well, at least their vigilance gets a drug dealer off the street. A non-Dutch-government-licensed-drug-dealer, I mean.

Good for them.

Posted by: DWC [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 20, 2004 01:46 PM

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