A teenager who forced his way into a Dutch TV station acted alone and has no links to terror groups, police have said.
The national broadcaster NOS temporarily went off air on Thursday evening when the 19-year-old, armed with a fake pistol, allegedly threatened a security guard to get into the building in Hilversum, east of Amsterdam.
The teenager, who is accused of taking a hostage, demanded to go on live television to address the nation, apparently about a conspiracy theory.
A short time later the suspect was arrested when police stormed the TV studios.
During the ordeal, the teenager claimed he had put explosives around the Netherlands, was part of a hackers' collective and that a major cyberattack was imminent.
Police said he has since admitted those claims were untrue.
"There is no evidence of any connection with other events in the Netherlands or abroad," a police statement said.
Police spokeswoman Hilde Bakker said the teenager faces charges of kidnapping and making threats of violence.
"What brought the man to his actions is still being investigated," the police statement said.
Prosecutors and police have not revealed the suspect's identity due to Dutch privacy laws, but local media said he a first-year student at the University of Delft.
Classmates were quoting as saying the teen led a rich fantasy life.
He is appearing before an investigating judge later. Prosecutors want him to be detained further so that a "personality investigation" can be carried out.
Nobody was injured in the incident, but NOS went off air for around an hour, interrupting the 8pm (local time) news broadcast. It was the first time in 60 years that the 8pm news was off air.
After the incident, NOS broadcast footage of the teenager, dressed neatly in black suit and tie, speaking calmly and pacing around the studio armed with what appeared to be a pistol with a silencer.
The ordeal put the Netherlands on edge, coming three weeks after the attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris that left 12 people dead.
NOS director Jan de Jong said he would meet police and the local mayor in Hilversum to discuss whether security - already increased since the Charlie Hebdo attack - needed to be further strengthened.
Mr de Jong paid tribute to the security guard, who led the teenager into an empty TV studio and kept speaking to him throughout the ordeal.
"I was amazed at how unbelievably calm he was," Mr de Jong said.
When police burst into the studio, guns drawn, the teenager immediately dropped the fake gun and surrendered without a struggle.
NOS is one of many broadcasters to have their headquarters in Hilversum.
The area, known as the media park, has been tightly guarded since populist Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed in a car park there in 2002 by an animal rights activist.
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