Mark Hodgson
After a series of terrorist attacks in France, Germany and the Low Countries police in Europe have a tendency to shoot rather than use any other course of action when dealing with this sort of incident. Most European police forces have always been armed. Flying into Munich Airport on my first trip abroad and being confronted by a police armed with automatic weapons was a definite culture shock, but it did prepare me for armed police in Italy and France. I suppose visiting these countries when Baader-Meinhoff and The Red Brigades were at the height of their fame (infamy) should have prepared me.

These days on reading stories about knife welding assailants being shot by police I just think if they weren't a fully fledged terrorist then they made an unfortunate choice in location. Its unfortunate if an ordinary violent criminal is killed but it these days when hire cars are used as weapons of mass murder arrest isn't always a safe option. In that respect terrorism has changed Europe,default to it's a terrorist incident as a default. Perhaps the e ception is London which appears to have a different problem.

Have to agree with AK, this story was pretty trivial. The kind of thing you expect to see on Breitbart. And no real link to terror. I understand that in other incidents obvious links to terror seem to be carefully avoided but this isn't one of them. Probably.

Evil spellchecker!!! Unprepared should be unreported.

Mark. How many independent sources does the Telegraph require before reporting a story? The BBC reputedly requires at least two. What evidence is available to substantiate a terrorist motive? Did the police overreact by closing more of the station than they needed to and so now are playing the terrorism card? Is the BBC being cautious until more established facts are available? So many questions that I for one don't know answers to.

Quite frankly I'm surprised the BBC reports it at all - a knife attack where the two victims are still alive, as is the perp, and in another country where apparently no one from the UK is involved. Most knife woundings in Britain's big cities go unprepared.

It's too early in the morning. Of course omission is censorship of a sort. What I meant to say is that the omission of all the facts from the report, as well as being censorship, is misleading, possibly deliberately so. "Move along folks; nothing to see here."

Tucked away far down the Europe page of the BBC website, never making it to the front page, so far as I am aware, is this:

"Amsterdam station: Suspect shot after double stabbing"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45367578

The entire report runs to 5 short paragraphs:

"wo people have been wounded in a stabbing incident at Amsterdam's central railway station, Dutch police say.

The suspected attacker was shot and wounded by police. The motive is unclear and officials say an investigation is under way.

All three have been taken to hospital for treatment.

Some train services in and out of the station were suspended during the incident and two platforms closed.

The Central Station is used by an estimated 250,000 travellers every day."

Meanwhile, the truth might be rather different (from "the motive is unclear"). The Daily Telegraph report provides rather more information:

"A knife attacker on Friday stabbed two people at Amsterdam's Central Station before being shot by police in a suspected terror attack, Dutch police said.

The suspect was identified late on Friday evening as a 19-year-old Afghan man with a German residency permit.

"We are seriously taking into account that there was a terrorist motive," Frans Zuiderhoek, Amsterdam police spokesman, told AFP."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/31/double-stabbing-amsterdam-station-possible-terror-attack/

Censorship by omission by the BBC.