On appeal three months in prison for threatening Wilders | Inland

Wilders was on March 9, 2019 in Heerlen, handing out flyers for the elections for the Provincial Council on March 20. The suspect stood with his bicycle along the route of Wilders and, according to the Public Prosecution Service, would have said to a local police officer: “I have an ax in my bicycle bag and I hit him in the head with it”, referring to Wilders, who he said “a pig ”.

The OM demanded four years in prison both in court and on appeal for preparing a murder. The man himself says he only made a joke to a local police officer known to him. The police did not see the joke and the man was arrested.

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In his own words, the man is a fan of Wilders. He would never have wanted to hurt Wilders, he said before the court. Psychological research shows that the man is mentally retarded. Unlike the OM, the court sees no intention to murder Wilders.

The court does, however, blame the man for making the threats, all the more because Wilders is already being threatened and that such statements “could reasonably give Wilders the fear that he would lose his life or sustain serious physical injury,” it said. judges on appeal. “The court reckons it with the accused that he nevertheless did not take into account the possible consequences of his statements.” The court does, however, attribute the threats to him to a lesser extent, given the man’s mental limitations.

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