On Camera: Man Armed with Fake Gun Takes Over TV Studio, Surrenders to Police
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Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images(AMSTERDAM) — A Dutch TV camera kept rolling as an armed man who had apparently stormed a television station paced back and forth, with what looked like a silenced pistol in hand, before surrendering to police.
The video, posted online by the Dutch outlet NOS shortly after the incident, shows the young man in a suit speaking to someone off camera for several minutes before police can be heard entering the room and yelling at the man. He calmly drops his weapon and police take him into custody.
Police in the Netherlands later said that the gun was fake.
Earlier NOS had reported that its newsroom had been evacuated. The man had demanded airtime, the station said. No shots were reportedly fired.
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