THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 A 37-year-old man accused of a bomb attack 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 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 during which rioters vandalized the office, just weeks ahead of national elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 A 37-year-old man accused of a bomb attack on the Dutch premier\u2019s party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[466,465,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands","8":"tag-ap-world-news","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-netherlands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520","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=10520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}