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Far-right leader Geert Wilders calls Moroccan migrants scum
Source: The Guardian
Far-right leader Geert Wilders calls Moroccan migrants ‘scum’
The leader of the populist Freedom party went on to tell
supporters to ‘make the Netherlands ours again’
Robin McKie
Saturday 18 February 2017 19.33 GMT
The Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders sparked outrage on Saturday when he launched his election campaign with a stinging attack on the country’s Moroccan population. The anti-immigration MP called them “scum” and said he wanted to make the Netherlands “ours again”.
Wilders, 53, was surrounded by police and security guards when he made his remarks during a walkabout in his party’s stronghold of Spijkenisse, part of an ethnically diverse industrial area just south of Rotterdam.
“The Moroccan scum in Holland … once again not all are scum … but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people ... and that should change,” he told journalists as he attempted to take a stroll in a market.
Wilders, who has lived in hiding since the 2004 murder by an Islamist of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, is hoping a global upsurge in populism will propel him to power in the parliamentary election. His campaign pledges include a ban on Muslim immigration, shuttering all mosques and leaving the European Union.
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The leader of the populist Freedom party went on to tell
supporters to ‘make the Netherlands ours again’
Robin McKie
Saturday 18 February 2017 19.33 GMT
The Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders sparked outrage on Saturday when he launched his election campaign with a stinging attack on the country’s Moroccan population. The anti-immigration MP called them “scum” and said he wanted to make the Netherlands “ours again”.
Wilders, 53, was surrounded by police and security guards when he made his remarks during a walkabout in his party’s stronghold of Spijkenisse, part of an ethnically diverse industrial area just south of Rotterdam.
“The Moroccan scum in Holland … once again not all are scum … but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people ... and that should change,” he told journalists as he attempted to take a stroll in a market.
Wilders, who has lived in hiding since the 2004 murder by an Islamist of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, is hoping a global upsurge in populism will propel him to power in the parliamentary election. His campaign pledges include a ban on Muslim immigration, shuttering all mosques and leaving the European Union.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/18/geert-wilders-netherlands-describes-immigrants-scum-holland
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