A 27-year-old man who took over an Apple Store in central Amsterdam, took a hostage, and demanded a €200-million ($223 million) crypto ransom has died in hospital after being mown down by a police car.
The armed suspect, named by Het Parool as Abdel Rahman Akkad, took control of the shop in the city’s bustling Leidseplein area on Tuesday. A tense five-hour standoff with police followed.
The outlet reported the situation ended when Akkad’s 44-year-old Bulgarian hostage, an Apple customer, fled as police delivered water.
The BBC highlighted that the victim was Bulgarian while Dutch media initially claimed they were British.