Geert Wilders response to the prosecutor’s claim
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Geert Wilders:
''Most parliamentarians do not go to the extra-secured bunker court in a convoy of armored cars almost every week to be accused of compromising the "good name" of Moroccans in a political trial.
Insane!!!''
Freedom of speech!
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Today I will go to the maximum-security court at Schiphol again.
— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) 2 juli 2019
I will also send a letter and a book with Muhammadcartoons to all fellow Members of Parliament to remind them of the utmost importance of Freedom of Speech and Expression.#FreedomOfSpeech #Wilderstrial #Wilders pic.twitter.com/ERc8f3Rd9p
Political trial against freedom of speech resumes tomorrowmorning
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Tomorrowmorning in the extra-secured court at Schiphol airport the trial against Geert Wilders resumes.
It is a politicial trial not only because Geert Wilders is being prosecuted for expressing his opinion – not favoured by the political elite. It is a political trial as well because of the political interferance in the process.
Earlier this month Geert Wilders called for a parliamentary inquiry into the political interference in his trial.
Wilders’ defense team obtained a notary statement from a former official of the Department of Justice in which the official declares overhearing a conversation between the then Secretary-General and then Minister of Justice Opstelten.
According to this remarkable statement Opstelten explicitly said that the public prosecutor should proceed to prosecute Wilders because ‘he is getting in our way’.
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