this time they failed

This time, they failed!

By David Verveer

AMSTERDAM -- The man who drove his car into a crowd of parade spectators and killed six people died of his injuries Friday, leaving unresolved the mystery of why he tried to attack the Dutch royal family. The 38-year-old suspect, identified by Dutch media as Karst Tates, had been in critical condition since the attack Thursday on Queen's Day, the Dutch national holiday.

Ten other people were hurt when the man rammed his small black car through police barricades toward an open-topped bus carrying Queen Beatrix and several other members of the royal family.

He told one of the first police officers to rush to his car that the attack was aimed at the royal family, prosecutor Ludo Goossens said Thursday. But the motive was unclear. "It is very difficult now that we no longer have the suspect to reconstruct what was behind this," said Fred de Graaf, they mayor of Apeldoorn where the incident occurred.

Dutch media, citing neighbors, said Tates recently was fired from his job as a security guard and was to be evicted from his home in the small eastern town of Huissen because he could no longer afford the rent. Police said he had no history of mental illness or police record.

The neighbors described him as friendly, but a man who kept to himself, the NRC Handelsblad reported.
He was a "quiet man". Or a "loner". We don't know yet.
Prosecutors said the suspect's death ended the criminal investigation against him, but that they would continue to investigate whether he acted alone. "So far there are no indications" anybody else was involved, prosecutors said in a statement.

Police who searched the man's house Thursday "found no weapons, explosives or indications of other suspects," prosecutors said. No links with terrorism or ideological groups were immediately uncovered, they said.
Quote of a news flash published on the Net.

My theory

Reading the newspapers on the terrorist attack on the Dutch Royal Family, and the expert's conclusion, that with the death of the culprit, there is no way to discover his real motives, or if he was only a tool in the hand of anti-royalist movement or even Islamic terrorists, or who knows which twisted brains, used this peculiar loner in order to disrupt and attack the Royal family.

Let us one moment assume that a desperate man, who lost his job and becomes homeless, does not decide on going to kill the popular Dutch queen, just because he feels that he lost his taste for living, there are much easier ways of suicide, in which mass killing is one of the most unlikely alternatives.

As reported, Karst Tates was reported mentally stable, and not thought to be the type to reach in such a state of confusion to create the havoc in Apeldoorn, but the fact is, he drove into the crowd, in the direction of the Royal family as a zombie, which make me think that he was drugged, but according the police, no sufficient traces of drugs (one newspaper wrote that there were traces of cannabis found in his blood) but insufficient quantities to explain his behavior.

But let us assume for one moment that it was a conspiracy to harm the Queen, Mister Karst Tates, as a known loner, was a perfect candidate to execute this attack without leaving any traces or connecting anybody else to the crime, provided Karst indeed, would not survive the attack. We eliminated drugs, mental stress, the only other possibility remaining is, that Karst was hypnotized and programmed to execute the attack. This might be the explanation why he did not instinctively hit the brakes when plowing into the spectators, a reaction which a normative person automatically will do when he collides with people, but Karst did not release his foot from the gas, kept on racing, in the direction of the Royal Bus. Failing to hit the Bus was due to the fact that the front window of the car shattered on collusion which made it impossible for him to see his target, the Bus, and ended up hitting the monument.

The above theory is based on my phantasm, after trying to read between the lines of the reporters' impressions, the scarce information provided by the authorities and a lot of imagination, required to create likely scenery for an assignation attempt of the Royals, without leaving any traces, or a so called "perfect crime".

The motive

It is clear to anybody that Karst did not have any motive to kill or harm the Dutch Royal family, his personal problems (unemployment and homeless) are not in the jurisdiction of the monarchy and it is unlikely that he would consciously chose to hurt a family, extremely popular by the Dutch, because his personal problems, in order to commit suicide, being desperate, why would he harm others?

But if he really was hypnotized, his actions would not have been motivated by any logic behavior, and thus, becomes a perfect tool in the hands of the real killer.
I imagine that in order to create chaos and terror and confusion, by Islamic terror, choosing as target, the Royals, would be rather unlikely, but on the other hand, groups such as anti royalists, nihilists and the extreme Right, toppling the Monarchy might be an unrealistic but possible target.

Kidnap attempt?

But, what if the attack was in actually a botched plot, in order to kidnap one or more of the Royal family? What if Karst's function was simply to derail the Bus and the rescue team was the kidnapper, who due to the fact that Karst did not hit the bus, was not required and fled the scene of the crime?

The Dutch Royal family is extremely rich, kidnapping one or more members from this family would provide a large ransom possibility.
I believe the kidnap possibility is the most likely reason, as no organization claimed to have organized the attack, and all the blame is put on Karst, who conveniently died and can not spill the tale.

Dear Dr. Watson, I think I solved this rather obvious and simple case.