Okay, this freaked us all out tonight.

As you all might know, last year during Queensday (30th of April), there was an attack on the Royal Family of Holland. The family was not harmed, but a total of 8 people died in the crowd. (more about the attack). Everybody still has that image on his mind.

Today, 4th of May, there is a Memorial Day for every soldier and citizen that has died in war since World War II. Every year there is a ceremony on the Dam Square in Amsterdam with the Queen and her family. There are two minutes of silence, but during the second minute, someone started screaming and the crowd started running.

A dozen people where injured and one person was arrested starting the panic.

This could be disturbing, but I can tell you that everything turned out okay.
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It was live on television, so it was quite scary. But do you also see that scene of The Dark Knight in here?

It's very surreal to watch. It does almost feel like your watching a movie.

That's really scary! Glad that everyone is okay. What caused the person to scream? Did they find that out yet?

Well, it was a chain-reaction.

First, during the two minutes of silence, there was a man, dressed like a orthodox jew that was talking during the silence. People (probably cops that were not in uniform) started to calm down the man. He stopped for a moment and then started raising his arms and screaming.
Cops imediately threw the man on the ground and arrested him, but the first people where already running. In the panic, some one else lost his briefcase, which 'caused a second panic flow, because people thought it might have been a bomb.
The briefcase was removed from the Dam Square really quickly and the second man was arrested too. But after they found out there was nothing in the briefcase (some personal stuff of the man) and a quick interrogation, the man was released again. He lost his briefcase in the panic. Could have happened to everyone.

The first man has been arrested many times before for violence, drug dealing, using and holding.

Wow! That could be a plot for a short film!
I'm glad that everything is okay! That is a really scary thing to go through!

wow dude I didn't even know about the car incident,
this one was just WTF?
it was like a guy screaming like fucking Tarzan and then some chick freaked out?

wow