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Caroline van der Plas of the BoerBurgerBeweging will not go to the farmers’ protest in The Hague on Saturday because she does not feel safe there. Van der Plas has been threatened before and in recent weeks it has been “very restless again”, she said in the program Inside today.
She says she doesn’t feel safe enough “to stand on stage at such a massive gathering”. In addition, Van der Plas emphasized that she does not know exactly who is coming and that society “has become very restless” and “people are becoming increasingly angry”.
“I’m not saying there will be an attack, but it’s so restless that I’m not going to do that. I’m not saying ‘there’s someone with a gun’, but people are so angry with me, spreading all kinds of theories (.. .) It may be that someone is so convinced that I am evil that he thinks: and now I am going to do it.”
Van der Plas is not the only politician who is threatened. Last year, a record number of politicians went to the police because of threats they had received. The leader of the BoerBurgerBeweging said in the program that there is virtually no member of parliament left who is either not threatened or intimidated.
