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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 months 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 politicians 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.
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 politicians 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
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ck4829
(35,091 posts)1. Maybe Wilders should be looking at his far right brothers
I suspect they want a martyr.
Isn't the first time that officer had leaked.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)2. He seriously needs to go away
far away...perhaps Siberia
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)3. Maybe he figures it's all downhill so he is keeping it on the downlow?
With all the anti-trump momentum, maybe he's afraid to speak his trump rhetoric?