The main suspect in a deadly tram shooting in the Dutch city of Utrecht will be charged with offenses including multiple murder or manslaughter with a terrorist intent, prosecutors said.
Investigations so far into the shooting that left three dead and three seriously injured indicate that the shooter acted alone, prosecutors said in a written statement.
The main suspect, identified by police as Gokmen Tanis, a 37-year-old man of Turkish descent, also faces charges of attempted murder or manslaughter and making threats with a terrorist intent.
The prosecution office statement adds that investigations are continuing into whether the suspect’s actions “flowed from personal problems combined with a radicalized ideology.”
The team investigating the shooting will ask a forensic psychiatry and psychology institute to carry out a personality test on the suspect.
Tanis is to appear before an investigating judge tomorrow.
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