{"id":242148,"date":"2023-11-25T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=242148"},"modified":"2023-11-25T20:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T20:02:32","slug":"dutch-far-right-mp-violently-attacked-in-bar-ahead-of-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/dutch-far-right-mp-violently-attacked-in-bar-ahead-of-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch far-Right MP violently attacked in bar ahead of general election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Shocking moment Dutch far-Right MP is violently attacked with beer bottle in bar two days before general election in the Netherlands &#8211; as right-wing populists make gains in polls<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Police have arrested a person on suspicion of involvement in the attack\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The leader of a far-right\u00a0Dutch\u00a0populist party was taken to hospital after being violently attacked with a beer bottle during an election campaign meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on social media showed Thierry Baudet, leader of Forum for Democracy, speaking to people in a bar in the northern city of Groningen on Monday evening when a man wielding a an apparent beer bottle lunged at him.<\/p>\n<p>The politician was greeting patrons when the man suddenly and violently hit him\u00a0next to his eye and on the side of the head at least three times. Baudet was quickly escorted away as bystanders overpowered his attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Baudet, 40, was taken to a nearby hospital and treated by a trauma surgeon, his party confirmed. It said a security guard also was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Police have\u00a0arrested a person on suspicion of involvement in the attack. The alleged attacker&#8217;s motive remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attack comes just two days before the Netherlands will hold its general election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/00\/78042723-12772485-image-m-21_1700526001722.jpg\" height=\"548\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Thierry Baudet, leader of the Forum for Democracy party,\u00a0was taken to hospital after being violently attacked with a beer bottle during an election campaign meeting on Monday night. Baudet is pictured in the bar<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/00\/78042721-12772485-The_Dutch_politician_pictured_during_the_assault_was_greeting_pa-m-22_1700526098055.jpg\" height=\"714\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Dutch politician (pictured during the assault) was greeting patrons when the man suddenly and violently hit him next to his eye and on the side of the head at least three times. Baudet was quickly escorted away as bystanders overpowered his attacker<\/p>\n<p>Police have confirmed that Baudet\u00a0was assaulted on Monday evening in a bar in\u00a0Groningen.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman\u00a0Thijs de Jong said:\u00a0&#8216;What we can say at the moment is that Mr. Baudet was hit on the head, possibly with an object.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The officer said he could not give further details or comment on Baudet&#8217;s condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the politician&#8217;s Forum for Democracy party said on\u00a0<span>X, formerly <\/span>Twitter, that &#8216;it looks like everything will all be alright&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The party added\u00a0that an event that had been planned for later Monday in another city had been cancelled &#8216;in connection with the health and security&#8217; of him. It did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>The attack marks the second time that Baudet has been attacked in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he suffered a light concussion after being hit on the head with an umbrella at an event held at the Ghent University campus in Belgium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/00\/78042729-12772485-image-a-23_1700526113207.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The attack marks the second time that Baudet (pictured on October 26, 2023 in Gent) has been attacked in recent weeks. Last month, he suffered a light concussion after being hit on the head with an umbrella at an event held at the Ghent University campus in Belgium<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/00\/78042825-12772485-image-a-28_1700526275654.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Baudet, 40, was taken to a nearby hospital and treated by a trauma surgeon, his party confirmed. It said a security guard also was injured. Pictured is the\u00a0exterior of the University Medical Center Groningen where Baudet\u00a0 was treated for his injuries<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/00\/78042821-12772485-image-a-27_1700526267296.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Forum for Democracy party said an event that had been planned for later Monday in another city had been cancelled &#8216;in connection with the health and security&#8217; of him. It did not elaborate. Pictured:\u00a0People gather outside of the Odeon theater, where a campaign meeting of Forum for Democracy Party was supposed take place, in Zwolle on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Both assaults sparked furious reactions by Dutch politicians from across the political spectrum and calls for increased security for politicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte tweeted on Monday that it was &#8216;totally unacceptable that Thierry Baudet has been attacked again. I said it before and I repeat it now firmly: Don&#8217;t touch politicians.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rutte said he had contacted Baudet to wish him good health.<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades ago, another populist Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, was assassinated just\u00a0days before a 2002 national election.<\/p>\n<p>Fortuyn, a populist anti-immigration politician, was attacked\u00a0after giving a radio interview while on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>His attacker, Volkert van der Graaf, an animal and environmental rights activist, was arrested at the scene and later sentenced to 18 years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Graaf was released on parole in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/00\/78042823-12772485-image-a-29_1700526421663.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Police patrol the Gedempte Zuiderdiep street, where Thierry Baudet was attacked on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Baudet, who has been regarded as a controversial lawmaker after pushing various conspiracy theories and being outspoken in his support of Moscow,\u00a0is running to keep his seat in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>His Forum for Democracy party leapt to prominence in provincial elections in 2019, where it was the winner with more than 1 million votes. It has since been troubled by internal discontent but still holds five seats in the 150-seat lower house of the Dutch parliament.<\/p>\n<p>A poll published Monday night predicted Forum for Democracy would win between three and five seats in the election. Another populist right-wing party, the Party for Freedom led by anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders, ranked second in the poll and was forecast to win 22 to 28 seats.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Baudet resigned as the party&#8217;s leader amid criticism of his handling of accusations of extreme-right views held by some members of the party&#8217;s youth wing. He was overwhelmingly returned as leader in a vote among party members.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12772485\/Dutch-MP-Thierry-Baudet-attacked-bar-ahead-general-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocking moment Dutch far-Right MP is violently attacked with beer bottle in bar two days before general election in the Netherlands &#8211; as right-wing populists make gains in polls Police&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dutch far-Right MP violently attacked in bar ahead of general election - lovemainstream.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/dutch-far-right-mp-violently-attacked-in-bar-ahead-of-general-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dutch far-Right MP violently attacked in bar ahead of general election - lovemainstream.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shocking moment Dutch far-Right MP is violently attacked with beer bottle in bar two days before general election in the Netherlands &#8211; 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