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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 03:34 PM Feb 2017

Geert Wilders suspends election campaign over alleged security leak

Source: The Guardian

The Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders and his populist Freedom party have suspended all public campaigning for next month’s parliamentary elections following an alleged security leak.

Wilders, current frontrunner for the Netherlands’ general elections, to be held on 15 March, said on Twitter: “Very alarming news. The PVV is suspending its public activities until all facts in connection with the corruption investigation are known.”

Dutch media reported this week that a member of the far-right politician’s police security team had been arrested on suspicion of leaking details of his whereabouts to a Dutch-Moroccan criminal gang.

The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper reported on Thursday that the officer and his brother, both previously members of the Utrecht police force, had also been investigated in the past in connection with suspected leaks of confidential information.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/23/geert-wilders-suspends-election-campaign-over-alleged-security-leak
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Geert Wilders suspends election campaign over alleged security leak (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2017 OP
Maybe Wilders should be looking at his far right brothers ck4829 Feb 2017 #1
He seriously needs to go away SoCalNative Feb 2017 #2
Maybe he figures it's all downhill so he is keeping it on the downlow? angstlessk Feb 2017 #3

ck4829

(34,977 posts)
1. Maybe Wilders should be looking at his far right brothers
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 03:43 PM
Feb 2017

I suspect they want a martyr.

Isn't the first time that officer had leaked.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
3. Maybe he figures it's all downhill so he is keeping it on the downlow?
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 05:21 PM
Feb 2017

With all the anti-trump momentum, maybe he's afraid to speak his trump rhetoric?

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