| Submit your comments on this article |
| Europe |
| Policewoman shot outside UN Tribunal |
| 2005-06-14 |
| From the Dept. of Too Soon To Tell If This Is Significant: A police officer underwent surgery on Monday evening after being shot and seriously injured in Scheveningen near The Hague. The shooting took place at about 5.50pm on Monday on the Vuurtorenweg in Scheveningen. The website of Dutch newspaper 'De Telegraaf' said the 21-year-old officer had been on guard duty in a security hut outside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She was apparently able to raise the alarm herself and was airlifted to hospital by a trauma helicopter. The police have revealed little else about the incident or her medical condition. It has not been confirmed whether the shooting was related to the tribunal's work. Investigators sealed off the scene and were carrying forensic examinations late into the evening. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #8 Not fair. Peter used his secret decoder ring. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-06-14 12:05 |
| #7 AMSTERDAM — Police say it appears that the shooting of an officer outside the Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague on Monday evening was a self-inflicted accident. We got any swell prizes for Peter? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-06-14 11:54 |
| #6 Morrocan wedding collateral damage? |
| Posted by: ed 2005-06-14 11:44 |
| #5 Jelous boyfriend? |
| Posted by: gromgorru 2005-06-14 11:17 |
| #4 That's her right Peter. Altho if she'd waited for a few years we might have made it painless. |
| Posted by: W Churchill scion of William the Silent 2005-06-14 09:48 |
| #3 She probably shot herself. |
| Posted by: Peter 2005-06-14 06:32 |
| #2 Oh yes. It was inadequately trained, equipped, and supported Dutch UN peacekeeping troops that stood by and watched the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serbs. A video of it was released just last week that caused even more outrage than pee on a Qur'an. And now a UN tribunal in the Netherlands sits in judgment of a war crime it should have prevented. So I would also consider payback as a possibility. |
| Posted by: ST 2005-06-14 04:52 |
| #1 FWIW, I've been through that very security hut. The ICTY is a sprawling concrete and glass complex with really nothing else for 50-100 yards in every direction. Bloody unlikely it could be mistaken for a bank, or that it was crossfire from some nearby melee, so I don't see how it could be "unrelated" to the tribunal's work. Finding and trying all the Srebrenica perps is mainly what they're up to these days. Among other things, Del Ponte is currently trying to nab two fugitives in Russia. |
| Posted by: ST 2005-06-14 04:34 |