Dutch gunman who triggered a bloodbath in the tram | Chronic

The man accused of killing three people Thursday on a streetcar in the Dutch city of Utrecht was arrested, a police spokesman said.

At a press conference, the spokesman did not confirm the reasons for the shooting, which made five more wounded, three serious, according to a discounted figure after the police had initially spoken of nine wounded.

The main suspect, Turkish Gokmen Tanis37 years old, was arrested very close to the place, a few hours before the police, the vehicle running, the vehicle in which he had fled, said the spokesman of the police.

The prosecutor's office, which investigated the shooting, badured that "this takes into account a terrorist motive, but other reasons can not be excluded"reported the EFE news agency.

"The suspect was arrested in Oudenoord, Utrecht, before the police published information and a photo of the same person", the local security force reported via his Twitter account.

Tanis has a long criminal record in recent years, which also matches the profile of an ordinary criminal: robbery with violence, attacks on authority and badual harbadment on the street, according to the Dutch press.

Another of the badumptions dealt with by the Office of the Prosecutor is that it is a "crime of honor", because of the possible relationship between the arrest and one of the victims. In fact, relatives of Tanis told the official Turkish news agency Anatolia that the man had opened fire on another of his relatives. "for family reasons" and then against those who tried to stop him.