Two letter bombs exploded within the Netherlands on Wednesday and an nameless prison is asking for a Bitcoin cost to stop future assaults, Dutch police say.
The primary bomb went off at a postal sorting workplace in ABN Amro financial institution in Amsterdam on Wednesday morning. The letter bomb exploded moments after a mailroom employee tossed away the package deal. “The colleague who was sorting the mail heard a hissing sound, and threw the package deal away,” Mr. van der Varst mentioned.
The second explosion got here lower than an hour later in a border city known as Kerkrade. The package deal was mailed to a neighborhood enterprise, the Japanese electronics agency Ricoh.
No one was injured in both explosion, however police say the bombs have been despatched together with notes demanding cost in Bitcoin to stop additional bombings.
Police have began their investigation however haven’t formally linked the circumstances collectively. Amsterdam police spokeswoman Lex van Liebergen mentioned right now to Dutch website De Telegraaf: “It’s honest to say that each one of those are related as a result of the identical demand was made[…] However we nonetheless don’t know who despatched it. We’re nonetheless investigating.”
The police haven’t but revealed how a lot Bitcoin the unknown bomber is demanding.
This isn’t the primary time the Netherlands has seen unhealthy guys demand crypto funds. The 2015 Jumbo bomber, who put explosives in Jumbo supermarkets across the nation, additionally demanded payoff in Bitcoin.