Dutch queen to attend WW2 events despite attack

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Queen Beatrix will attend World War Two Remembrance Day events next week but security is expected to be tightened after a man killed himself and six others in an attempted attack on the royals.

Extra snipers will be deployed for an event at the national war memorial in Amsterdam Monday, the AD newspaper said, quoting sources at the royal and diplomatic security service DKDB, and the number of plainclothes officers will be increased.

A 38-year-old Dutchman rammed his car into onlookers at a royal parade in Apeldoorn Thursday, the Queen's Day national holiday, narrowly missing an open bus carrying the monarch. Six people were killed and the driver died later from his injuries.

A spokeswoman for the national anti-terrorism organisation NCTb said it would review the security measures in Apeldoorn.

"We will make a reconstruction of the facts in order to make adjustments to security measures," she said Saturday.

The committee that organises the May 4 and 5 Remembrance Day and Liberation Day activities said Queen Beatrix and her heir Prince Willem-Alexander will attend Monday's commemoration.

A spokesman for the Amsterdam city council said the Apeldoorn attack was "a reason to go through the security again." He declined to comment further.

The Queen will also attend the traditional closing concert on Liberation Day on the Amstel river in Amsterdam although the program has been amended. link...