Geert Wilders, chairman of the Dutch extreme right -wing party (PVV), suspended his election campaign on Friday. This is due to the information that he was a target of a frustrated attack on Thursday against Belgian Prime Minister Bert de Wever. He wrote on social network X that he was informed by the Dutch news agency NCTV. TASR reports according to AFP.
“NCTV does not expect any ‘residual threat’, but I have a bad feeling, and therefore I suspend all my election activities for now,” added. Previously, on Friday, he canceled his participation in the election debate with other political leaders before the early parliamentary elections in the Netherlands on 29 October. They were announced after the departure of Wilders’ party from the ruling four -member coalition for a dispute concerning the limitation of migration. His PVV leads in pre -election polls of public opinion.
Wilders claims to be one of the drone attack goals
Dutch right -wing politician Geert Wilders said on Friday that “he would not go anywhere” until the news that was a possible goal of a drone attack in Belgium was possible. TASR writes according to AP.
On Thursday, the Belgian authorities detained three persons suspected of jihadist conspiracy in Antweros. Part of the home tour of four buildings was also a residence only a few hundred meters from the house of Prime Minister Bart de Wever, who was mayor Antwerp before joining the office earlier this year. “The improvised facility was found – potentially explosive, when examining a house of one suspect, But so far, inoperative – along with a pocket containing metal pellets, ” said the federal prosecutor Ann Fransen.
In the house of the other suspect The police have discovered a 3D printer, “which is expected to be intended to produce the components needed in the attack”. They later released one of the suspects. The other two judges are likely to formally accuse. Prosecutors did not indicate which politicians could be targeted.
The media speculates that the goal was to be Prime Minister Bart de Wever. According to Politico, he responded to this by publishing a photo with his cat, who has his own account on Instagram. “Maximus, can you catch a drone?” He wrote in the bubble and the sleepy Maximus replies him, “Catching a dream? Like no one else!” In the Dutch, the pronunciation of the words drone (drone) and the dream (droom) resembles. The post was added a hit from the 80s “Sweet Dreams” from the group Eurythmics. Wilders wrote on the X Network that he and de Wever’s successor as mayor Antwerp, Els Van Desburg, on the list of targets. All three are right -wing politicians.
