Overview
- Gilze-Rijen military air base ordered a partial evacuation and shut its main gate after a reported threat prompted a security alert.
- The Koninklijke Marechaussee says the alarm stemmed from a circulating video later assessed as years-old footage of a man at a fuel installation.
- Responders escalated to GRIP 1, a Dutch protocol that coordinates police, fire and ambulance services during an incident.
- Bomb-disposal specialists from the Defence EOD worked with military police to check locations seen in the clip and reported no suspicious findings.
- Exit controls were tightened as officers in ballistic vests stopped and inspected vehicles, and precautionary sweeps with dogs and drones continued after EOD teams departed.