THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 A bomb that was pushed through a letter slot exploded at the party headquarters of Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten but didn\u2019t injure anyone, and the centrist leader vowed Friday not to be intimidated by the attack.<\/p>\n
Police said they had arrested a 37-year-old suspect in the bombing late Thursday at the headquarters of the centrist D66 party in The Hague, but declined to release any further details including any suspected motive.<\/p>\n
The attack took place during a meeting of about 30 members of the party’s youth wing, who were startled but unharmed, Jetten said.<\/p>\n
Jetten, who took office in February, told reporters during his weekly news conference that it was \u201cpretty futile if you think you can intimidate politicians with these kinds of actions.”<\/p>\n
The leaders of other political parties joined Jetten in condemning the attacks. <\/p>\n
Center-right VVD leader Dilan Ye\u015filg\u00f6z called the attack a \u201ccowardly act\u201d on social media. Opposition leader Jesse Klave from the left party PRO called the bombing \u201ca direct attack on our democracy and the rule of law.\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 the general election.<\/p>\n
Jetten, who became the Netherlands\u2019 youngest-ever prime minister in February, was equally defiant in the autumn, calling the attackers \u201cscum\u201d in a post on social media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) \u2014 A bomb that was pushed through a letter slot exploded at the party…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6976,466,465,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands","8":"tag-ap-politics","9":"tag-ap-world-news","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-netherlands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893","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=9893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/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=9893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}