List of mass shootings in the Netherlands

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This article is a list of mass shootings in the Netherlands. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties.

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The data includes casualties of perpetrators, including self-inflicted gunshot or shooting of a perpetrator by police. The treatment of perpetrator casualties is at variance to some but not all definitions of a mass shooting used in the United States. The inclusion of injured victims in the data is also at variance with some of the US definitions that only include dead victims. However, the above treatment is consistent with that used in other Wikipedia lists of mass shootings by country.

21st century

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
6 May 2022 Rotterdam 224A man opened fire in a day care in Rotterdam, killing a 13 year old boy and a 18 year old girl and wounding a 5 year old kid and a 20 year old woman, before he was fleeing and later arrested. [1]
18 March 2019 Utrecht 4610 Utrecht tram shooting: A man shot 6 people on a tram in Utrecht in an act of Islamic extremism. [2] [3]
13 November 2018 Enschede 404Gang related shooting. [4]
7 August 2017 Curacao 4610Gang related shooting. [5]
16 May 2012 Zwijndrecht 314A man shot and killed his ex-partner, her mother and her sister. The ex-partners father was injured in the attack. The man had shot and killed another ex-partner four days before on May 12, 2011. [6] [7]
9 April 2011 Alphen aan den Rijn 7 [n 1] 1724 Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting
18 November 2005 Rotterdam 314Robbery of cafe. [8] [9]

20th century

DateLocationDeadInjuredTotalDescription
7 December 1999 Veghel 055A 17-year-old student opened fire in a computer room at ROC De Leijgraaf in an attempted honor killing, wounding a teacher and four students. [10]
30 November 1996 Rembrandtplein 145Gang related shooting. [11]
23 May 1977 De Punt 8 [n 1] 614 1977 Dutch train hijacking: A train was hijacked by nine armed Moluccan nationalists and took over 50 people are taken hostage. The hijacking lasted 20 days and ended with a raid by Dutch counter-terrorist special forces, during the shootout two hostages and six hijackers were killed. [12] [13] [14]
7 May 1945 Amsterdam 32+100+132+ 1945 shooting on Dam square, Amsterdam: During the liberation of Amsterdam on 7 May 1945, in the last days of World War II, German soldiers fired machine guns into a large crowd gathered on Dam square to celebrate the end of the war, killing over 30 people. [15] [16] [17]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Including the perpetrator or suspect

References

  1. ↑ "Shooting at Dutch day care for disabled kids leaves 2 dead". New York Post. 6 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "LIVE: Rutte legt bloemen, Tanis uiterlijk vrijdag voor rechter, "Utrecht, stay strong"". RTV Utrecht (in Dutch). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Dutch Court Convicts Man in Deadly Tram Terrorist Attack". The New York Times. 20 March 2020. ISSN   0362-4331.
  4. ↑ "Veroordeelde dader komt met alternatief scenario growshopmoorden". nos.nl (in Dutch). 23 February 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "Four dead and six injured in Curacao shooting". Algemeen Dagblad . Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Rechtspraak Mededeling". mededeling.rechtspraak.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "Leyla Achoendova - Moordzaken.com". moordzaken.com. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Three life sentences for Rotterdam café murders". nu.nl. Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  9. ↑ Visscher, J. (7 March 2014). "Digibron.nl, Voor altijd vast". Digibron.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  10. ↑ Verkuijlen, Jos; Triki, Ferenc (7 December 2024). "25 jaar na schietpartij op mbo-school is de impact nog altijd heel groot". Omroep Brabant (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "One dead and four injured in shooting". De Volkskrant . Retrieved 22 September 2025.
  12. ↑ van Lent, Niek (29 November 2017). "Wat gebeurde er tijdens de Molukse treinkaping bij De Punt?" [What happened during the Moluccan train hijacking at De Punt?]. NPO Kennis (in Dutch). Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  13. ↑ "Hoe Nederland wekenlang zijn adem inhield bij treinkaping De Punt" [How the Netherlands held its breath for weeks at the De Punt train hijacking]. NOS (in Dutch). 29 May 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
  14. ↑ "The Royal Dutch Marines". Special Forces: Untold Stories. Season 1. Episode 2. 12 April 2002. TLC . Retrieved 31 July 2024– via YouTube.
  15. ↑ "Amsterdam, '7 mei 1945'", National Comité 4 en 5 mei (Dutch)
  16. ↑ Stichting Memorial voor Damslachtoffers 7 mei 1945
  17. ↑ "The events of May 1945 in chronological order", Stichting Memorial voor Damslachtoffers 7 mei 1945
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