Dutch authorities to free 12 "suspects"

Tuesday, 25 Aug, 2006 0

Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for India, prosecutors said.

“From the statement of suspects and witnesses, no evidence could be brought forward that these men were about to commit an act of violence,” a prosecution statement said, adding police had searched for explosives on the plane, but found none.

Earlier, Dutch authorities said there was no threat of terrorism on board the airliner.

Passengers on the plane said air marshals intervened after the men began fidgeting with mobile phones and plastic bags.

“It does not appear to be terror related,” Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner told journalists in The Hague.

A spokeswoman for the Dutch counter-terrorism office added: “There is no indication of a terrorist threat on the plane that returned to Schiphol.”



 

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