Politicians throughout the Dutch political spectrum have condemned violence by far-right anti-immigration rioters towards police, forward of the snap parliamentary election scheduled for 29 October.
An anti-immigration demonstration attended by lots of of individuals in The Hague on Saturday turned violent, with rioters blocking a freeway, setting a police automobile on fireplace and vandalising the workplaces of liberal occasion D66.
D66 chief Rob Jetten denounced the assault and known as the rioters “scum” in a publish on X. Dilan Yeşilgöz, chief of the liberal VVD, additionally condemned the assault.
Geert Wilders, chief of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), likewise known as the freeway blockade and assaults on police “unacceptable” in a publish on X on Saturday. Wilders had earlier withdrawn his ministers from authorities in a dispute over migration coverage, triggering the autumn of Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s coalition and the snap election.
Caretaker Prime Minister Dick Schoof and Justice Minister Foort van Oosten additionally criticised the violence in separate statements on X.
“These are Trumpian scenes, fueled by politicians who sow worry and division”, posted progressive chief Frans Timmermans, a former European Commissioner, in a transparent rebuke of his political rival Wilders.
correcting to point it was the federal government of Dick Schoof and never Mark Rutte
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