{"id":10498,"date":"2026-05-11T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/10498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:46:06","slug":"prosecutors-cite-terrorist-intent-in-bomb-attack-on-headquarters-of-dutch-ruling-party-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/10498\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors cite terrorist intent in bomb attack on headquarters of Dutch ruling party"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A 37-year-old man accused of a bomb attack<\/a> on the Dutch premier\u2019s party headquarters is suspected of acting with terrorist intent, prosecutors said Monday as he faced an arraignment hearing where a judge ordered his detention extended by two weeks.<\/p>\n

The bomb exploded after being pushed through a letter slot at the centrist D66 party<\/a> on May 8. No one was injured. The attack occurred during a meeting of about 30 youth wing party members, who were startled but unharmed, Prime Minister Rob Jetten said during his weekly news conference.<\/p>\n

The suspect, whose name was not released in line with Dutch privacy regulations, was arrested shortly after the attack. Prosecutors say he has not said anything about a possible motive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man is suspected of causing an explosion with terrorist intent. An explosion targeting the headquarters of a political party instills fear in a part of the population. For this reason, the terrorist motive has been charged,\u201d The Hague Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a written statement.<\/p>\n

Jetten, who took office in February, told reporters during his news conference Friday that it was \u201cpretty futile if you think you can intimidate politicians with these kinds of actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second time the building in the city center of The Hague had been attacked in less than a year. In September, a right-wing demonstration erupted into violence<\/a> during which rioters vandalized the office, just weeks ahead of national elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A 37-year-old man accused of a bomb attack on the Dutch premier\u2019s party headquarters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8239,822,8770,812,42,831],"class_list":["post-10498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-hague","tag-bombings","tag-general-news","tag-political-violence","tag-terrorism","tag-the-hague","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}