Netherlands Defense Minister finds US gun violence 'very concerning' after Dutch commando is killed in Texas shooting
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren has expressed concern about gun violence in the United States at a meeting of European Union defense ministers in Prague on Tuesday, August 30. She raised these concerns after a shooting in Indianapolis that left one Dutch soldier, Simmie Poetsema, dead and two wounded on early hours of Saturday, August 27.
Sharing details of the incident, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said, as per Fox News, that there was a disturbance at a bar. Hogsett said, "As I understand it, there was a scuffle, a kerfuffle, at a bar and the Dutch guardsmen had returned to their hotel. What they were doing outside, I'm not altogether sure, but I'm told the alleged perpetrators did a drive-by shooting and ultimately three were victimized by that shooting." This killed the 26-year-old Poetsema, a member of the Dutch Commando Corps, the hotel and the other two suffered non life-threatening gunshot wounds. As per the report, the three were in Indiana for training at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, a military base.
