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Possible mole in security detail of Wilders campaign | ||||
2017-02-24 | ||||
A Dutch secret service agent who was part of the team responsible for protecting Geert Wilders, the frontrunner in next month's election, has been suspended on suspicion of leaking details to a criminal organization, the secret service said on Wednesday. Wilders, who campaigns on an anti-Islam platform that includes closing mosques and banning immigration from Muslim countries that has led to the protection, condemned the alleged breach, saying he cannot function without adequate security. Dutch newspapers De Telegraaf and NRC Handelsblad and the country's national broadcaster NOS identified the suspect as an experienced officer in his mid-30s, using his first name and last initial. Secret Service chief Erik Akerboom said he could not confirm the man's identity but confirmed media reports he has a "Moroccan background".
"My heavens" Wilders tweeted. "If I cannot blindly trust the service that's supposed to protect me, then I cannot function." Prime Minister Mark Rutte met Wilders, his chief opponent in the vote, to discuss the suspension.
"I can say nothing about these kinds of conversations," Rutte said, repeating his standard response to questions on security measures. Other Dutch politicians reacted with concern, including Wilders' most vocal critic, Alexander Pechtold of the centrist D66 Party. "These are very alarming initial reports, and they must be terrible for Wilders to hear," he said in a tweet. "We must not be naive. More clarification quickly, please."
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Posted by:Steve White |
#1 There's more information. Whoever assigned this individual to Wilders' security detail is either criminally incompetent or intended to have Wilders killed: "Subsequent revelations reported by Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad allege arrested officer Faris K. had been under suspicion in the past for security violations and that his brother Mohammed K. had been fired from Dutch police in 2007 for leaking police information, and had also been investigated for rape." |
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-02-24 13:37 |