A van with a Spanish number plate near the concert venue Maassilo is seen during police investigations after a rock concert was cancelled due to a terror threat, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, on August 23, 2017. AFP/ANP/Arie Kievit

 

MADRID: A van with Spanish license plates and containing gas bottles ?found near a concert hall in Rotterdam on Wednesday ? is not connected to the attacks in Catalonia last week, a judicial source told Reuters.

The source said a tip given to Dutch authorities by their Spanish counterparts, which was the result of an investigation by the Spanish Civil Guard.

The probe had been underway for some time and had no direct relation to the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in Catalonia that killed 15 people.

A separate police source said the man arrested in Rotterdam was Spanish.