Karst Tates attack on Dutch Royals last week

[netraven]

Hi I've been thinking. Is there more to the Karst Tates story than just some nut job attack? I mean losing his job and apartment are bad but there's a huge leap from those personal issues to driving a car through a crowd of innocent people in an attempt to kill the whole dutch royal family.

Quote:Before he was removed from the wreckage of his vehicle it was said that Tates admitted to police that his intention was to ram the open top bus carrying Queen Beatrix and other members of the Dutch royal family; a claim that they found all too believable when they found a map detailing the parade route in the car. However it appeared that he became so badly injured during the collision with spectators that he lost control of the vehicle and so missed his target, hitting the monument rather than the bus. Unfortunately his injuries proved fatal, and he later died in a Deventer hospital at 2.58 am on the following morning; which was doubly unfortunate as it meant that no one would ever know exactly why Karst Tates had decided to launch an attack on the Dutch royal family.


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Karst Tates had no criminal record, no previous history of mental illness. A subsequent search of his apartment revealed no explosives or weapons, or anything that appeared to indicate that he had any political affiliations whatsoever. It was noted that he had been made redundant a few months previously and could therefore no longer afford the rent on his flat, and had already arranged to quit the property on the 1st May. According to his neighbours he was a "neat, polite and rather reserved man" who had taken to shaving his hair and was said to be sporting a "Mohican like look", remarks which naturally led to speculation that this was in emulation of Travis Bickle, the "homicidal anti-hero" of the film Taxi Driver, as played by Robert de Niro. Members of Tates's family said that he had become depressed, but there were otherwise no clues as to what motivated him to launch his car borne assault.

Source of quote http://everything2.com/title/Karst%2520Tates



I read on a blog that Tates may have been brain washed like Mark David Chapman who killed the Beatle John Lenon. Lenon was left wing and was making the idea of world peace too popular so the military and arms manufacturers had him killed.


Reports say Tates died in hospital but this is contradicted by reports that he spoke to police and confessed before he died. I think he was silenced he knew too much.

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It's certainly possible.

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