6 March – a mentally disturbed man armed with two knives tries to enter a school in Alphen aan den Rijn; a group of students chases him off by throwing bags at him before his arrest by police officers[6]
17 June – at the Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf, one falls dead after a van crashed into a crowd; the driver turns himself in to the police the day after[10]
19 June – police forces arrest three men in Rotterdam, Schinnen and Groningen suspected of planning a terrorism act;[11] two other men suspected of planning a terrorist attack had been arrested two days before in Rotterdam in an unrelated case[12]
13 September – a woman disrupts an event in Schiedam attended by Queen Máxima, yelling about the situation of her handicapped son and holding a letter; she is held away by police officers before the Queen approached her to talk and take the letter[15]
