Farmers Defense Force apologizes after threatening language | Interior

The FDF report was on Wednesday reason for Schouten and Prime Minister Mark Rutte to suspend the nitrogen consultation with the Agricultural Collective, in which thirteen farmers’ organizations are represented. The Agricultural Collective has distanced itself from the words of the activist FDF, which is also a member of the collective.

The collective met on Wednesday evening for emergency consultations in Nijkerk. In the run-up to the consultation, FDF refused to apologize for the threat to the other chain organizations. Afterwards, FDF chairman Mark van den Oever said: “We apologize for the wrong words. We have made good agreements to jointly go further in the negotiations. ”With this, FDF distances itself from the earlier statement, in which the club states that ‘meat bosses, dairy gobos, bankers and established order advocacy’ visit Minister Schouten to to betray the farmers ‘like a judas’. There is a warning: “Anyone who now betrays the sector will know that.”

Rutte and Schouten reacted furiously and demanded an excuse. Schouten added that as a minister she may know with whom she is negotiating.

Farmers protest

The chairman of the Landbouw Collectief, Aalt Dijkhuizen, did immediately distance himself from the statement. In a press release, the Landbouw Collectief stated that the statement had not been agreed with the chairman or the other twelve members of the collective beforehand.

Last week, insiders report, there was also a bonus with Farmers Defense Force because of ambitions for a new large farmers’ protest. That didn’t happen.

Within the Collective there is increasing dissatisfaction with the group that would consist of farmers, hooligans and extremists. Van den Oever states that the nitrogen consultation without “his” FDF has no support in the sector. “We are by far the largest organization with 53,000 members. They are farmers and sympathizers. “

Left-wing parties in the House of Representatives have long been of the opinion that the cabinet should no longer sit at the table with FDF because of an unsavory comparison of the foreman about the treatment of farmers with Nazi Germany and the persecution of the Jews. Prime Minister Rutte and agriculture minister Schouten yesterday held consultations with farmers’ organizations that together form the Agricultural Collective, after the action group – a member of the collective – launched a threatening press release into the world just before the start.

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