On 31 August 2018, a knife attack occurred in Amsterdam Centraal station. Two American tourists were stabbed and injured in the station's western pedestrian tunnel before Amsterdam Regional Police shot and incapacitated the perpetrator, 19-year-old Afghan asylum seeker Jawed Sultani.
Authorities suspected an Islamist motive, later confirmed by questioning of the perpetrator, who admitted that the attack was a retaliatory act for disparaging statements against Islam by Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders. In October 2019, Sultani was sentenced to 26 years and eight months imprisonment and required to pay €3,000,000 to the victims.
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