World : Intruder Invades Dutch Leader’s Car
A man with a knife jumped into Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers’ car as he drove from the Royal Palace in The Hague today after offering his resignation to Queen Beatrix, a police spokesman said.
He said a palace guard seized the middle-aged man immediately after he opened an unlocked door and jumped into the car’s rear seat beside Lubbers as it pulled away.
“The man had a knife in his pocket but he didn’t threaten Lubbers with it,” the spokesman said. He said that the man was mentally unstable but that his motives were not yet known.
The prime minister, in office since 1982, resigned after his center-right coalition government collapsed over the funding of a plan to cut pollution.
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