{"id":242338,"date":"2025-09-20T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:21:22","slug":"dutch-anti-immigration-protest-turns-violent-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242338\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch anti-immigration protest turns violent \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The violent protest triggered a backlash among Dutch officials from both the left and right.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Justice Minister Foort van Oosten called violence against police <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ministerjenv\/status\/1969396073685827807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cabsolutely unacceptable.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemonstrating is a great thing in the Netherlands, but hands off our officers!\u201d  van Oosten wrote on social media. <\/p>\n<p>Far-right leader Geert Wilders also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geertwilderspvv\/status\/1969380033425809758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">condemned<\/a> the violence, calling the protesters \u201cidiots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frans Timmermans, former European Commissioner and current leader of the Dutch Labor-Green alliance, called these \u201cTrumpian conditions, fueled by politicians who sow fear and division.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemaining silent is not an option. You must make your voice heard,\u201d Timmermans <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/F__Timmermans\/status\/1969388010933285162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The violent protest triggered a backlash among Dutch officials from both the left and right. Dutch Justice Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[419,129313,97328,409,606,398,50,125,345,7841,527,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-242338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-frans-timmermans","10":"tag-geert-wilders","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-labor","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-rights","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-the-netherlands","18":"tag-water","19":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115238724505104241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}