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No prosecution for perceived threat against far-right leader
By Janene Pieters on October 2, 2019 - 17:30


Thierry Baudet. (Photo: Elekes Andor / Wikimedia Commons)

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) decided to drop the case against an Utrecht lecturer accused of threatening FvD leader Thierry Baudet. After the populist party's major election victory in March, the lecturer made a post containing the text 'Volkert, where are you?" on Facebook. The FvD and Baudet pressed threat and incitement charges against him. But the Prosecutor concluded that the text is not enough to constitute a concrete threat.

With the Facebook post, the lecturer was clearly referring to Volkert van der Graaf - the man who murdered politician Pim Fortuyn while his populist party LPF was gaining massive support in 2002. "Although it is understandable that a reference to such a serious and shocking case is considered inappropriate, the Public Prosecutor sees no legal grounds for prosecution", the Prosecutor said in a statement.

Read more at: https://nltimes.nl/2019/10/02/prosecution-perceived-threat-far-right-leader

It appears the threat made against the above Baudet was close to those who did that "where's Oswald when you need him" that we'd see a few years ago.  So a lecturer made this threat, so some sort of educated perhaps elite type.