FBI tracing second massacre-threat against Dutch schools

For the second time within three days, the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigations was asked by Dutch police to help trace an internet user who threatened to carry out another school massacre, this time at three multilingual schools in Rotterdam.

The three Graphic Lyceum schools in Rotterdam are attended by several thousand multilingual students -- and police threw an immediate, 'highly visual' cordon around all three schools after the threat was posted on a US-based website. Over the weekend, a man was also arrested in Breda after the FBI traced him to a Dutch address via a US-based Twitter internet address, upon the request of the Breda police. This man is still in custody. A Rotterdam police spokesman said Monday that the posted internet threat to carry out yet another school massacre, also referred to the deadly shootings of ten females and six males at a secondary school in Wennenden near Stuttgart, Germany on March 11, when a total of 17 people - including the 17-year-old shooter Tim Kretschmer himself -- were killed. see our previous article on this massacre Because the threat had not mentioned which of the three buildings housing the Lyceum schools would be targetted, the Rotterdam police formed immediate and 'very visible' police protection barriers around all three faclities. The schools were not closed down. The FBI also was contacted at once through its office in Brussels, Belgium to help trace the writer of the death-threats, police said. This past weekend, an 18-year-old man was also arrested in Breda, in the Netherlands after the FBI had traced him via a threat he had allegedly posted on the US-based Twitter website. This arrested man's home was searched; no weapons were found. However police are taking these threats very seriously, and he's therefore still in police custody, being questioned and his entire background thoroughly investigated, Breda police said today. Dutch police say they are still searching for this second person who had placed the death-threats against the Rotterdam schools on a US-based website. The online address where this specific threat was posted has now been removed, they added. see