Boys with ‘firearms’ arrested in Gouda, water pistols reveal

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Boys with ‘firearms’ arrested in Gouda

“You have to put on your heavy vests”, the police in Gouda were told via the control room. A witness had reported that a boy in a group in the Korte Akkeren district was standing with a firearm in his hand and was pointing it at passers-by. Officers with drawn service weapons arrested three boys, aged 14 and 15, near the Guldenburg.

CCTV footage from the area showed police believed it may have been a firearm. There would also be a fight. Several officers held the suspects at gunpoint. The boys were apprehended, searched and transferred to a cell complex.

Boys with ‘firearms’ arrested in Gouda

However, the ‘firearms’ carried by the boys turned out to be blackened water pistols. “A stupid move that could have had major consequences,” police wrote on Facebook accompanying a photo of the “weapons.” “Without black paint, they would have remained just water pistols. With the black paint, however, the story could have end very differently.”

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