Dutch politics got a blast from the past on Monday when a right-wing politician was assaulted. The country goes to the polls tomorrow and the hospitalisation of Thierry Baudet, attacked with a bottle in a bar in the northern city of Groningen, is a reminder of what happened to Pim Fortuyn in 2002.
After being assaulted in the weeks leading up to the Dutch elections, the flamboyant right-wing Fortuyn was then shot dead nine days before voters went to the polls. His assassin was an animal rights extremist who told a court he didn’t like the way Fortuyn talked about Muslims.
NEW: Conservative leader Thierry Baudet was sent to the hospital after being attacked with a beer bottle just two days before the Netherlands general election.
It’s always the violent liberals…
Baudet was reportedly treated by a trauma surgeon after he was attacked by a… pic.twitter.com/l9BL7UbBta
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 20, 2023
