Netherlands: Baby killed in Rotterdam stabbing. The police spoke of a “sad incident”

The child killed in a stabbing in Rotterdam’s Charlois district on Sunday was a baby of about 6 to 8 months old, Rijnmond reported based on information from locals. Neighbors saw the distraught mother collapse in the street with the blood-covered baby in her arms.

Furious locals watched the police bring the suspect, a 22-year-old soldier, out of the home on Wopaertsbocht.

The video shows neighbors yelling at the suspect. “What kind of man are you?” can be heard in the video. “A little baby, how can you do that?”

A neighbor told that the baby’s throat was cut. “This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”

It marked the latest violent incident in Rotterdam-Charlois in a rocky 24 hour period. One man was shot in the neck and another was stabbed after an argument turned vicious on Schilperoortstraat just before 2:30 a.m. on Sunday. The person with the gunshot wound was hospitalized, and the stabbing victim suffered minor injuries,

Police also confirmed that an arsonist set a house on fire late on Saturday night on Zuidhoek. Neighbors believed that a firebombing took place there, and told a media outlet that a man wearing a hoodie was seen running from the area. There were no injuries.

Outside of Charlois, but still in Rotterdam, another person was hit in a drive-by shooting on Saturday night. Stabbings also took place on Coolsingel and Nieuwe Binnenweg on Sunday morning.

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