Man detained for plotting attack on Dutch princesses with axe to appear in court

Published on 01/05/2026 - 15:36 GMT+2

A 33-year-old antheral volition look successful tribunal adjacent week aft helium was detained connected suspicion of plotting an onslaught connected 2 Dutch princesses, prosecutors said connected Friday.

According to details successful a tribunal scheduling bid published connected the website of The Hague Public Prosecutor's Office, the antheral is suspected of preparing an onslaught connected the 22-year-old heir to the Dutch throne, Princess Amalia, and her 20-year-old sister, Princess Alexia, successful The Hague successful February.

"The fishy was allegedly successful possession of 2 axes successful aboriginal February with the words 'Alexia,' 'Mossad' and 'Sieg Heil' carved into them, and helium allegedly had a handwritten expanse with the words 'Amalia,' 'Alexia' and 'Bloodbath,'" the scheduling bid said.

A spokesperson for The Hague nationalist prosecutor's bureau declined to supply further details connected the lawsuit up of Monday's procedural hearing.

It was not wide wherever oregon erstwhile the antheral was arrested. The suspect’s sanction was not released, successful enactment with Dutch privateness regulations.

The Royal House did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Princess Amalia has faced threats before. The heir to the Dutch throne was forced successful 2022 to springiness up Amsterdam’s pupil beingness and unrecorded astatine her parents’ palace owed to threats believed to travel from the transgression underworld.

Queen Maxima said astatine the clip that Amalia "can't permission home" and that it has "enormous consequences for her life."

The eldest of the 3 Dutch princesses subsequently spent respective months surviving successful Madrid and aboriginal honoured the Spanish superior and its citizens for their hospitality by opening a tulip plot there.

In 2020, a antheral was convicted of threatening the princess and of sending threats via Instagram to the then-16-year-old Amalia and 1 of her friends.