The Dutch authorities have released the man who murdered the flamboyant anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, now that he has served two-thirds of his jail sentence. Volkert van der. Volkert van der Graaf (born 9 July 1969) is a Dutch convicted murderer who assassinated politician Pim Fortuyn, the leader of the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF) party, on 6 May 2002. Van der Graaf shot Fortuyn outside a radio studio in Hilversum shortly after Fortuyn gave an interview during the political campaign for the Dutch general election of 2002.An environmental and animal rights activist, Van.
Op bezoek bij het graf van Pim Fortuyn hoe een Italiaans slaapdorpje een bedevaartsoord werd
Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (Dutch: [ˈpɪɱ fɔrˈtœyn] ⓘ; 19 February 1948 - 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.. Fortuyn worked as a professor at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam before branching into a business career and. Wilhelmus Simon Petrus (Pim) Fortuyn, officieel Fortuijn (Velsen, 19 februari 1948 - Hilversum,. Plein in Den Haag) en bij zijn tijdelijke graf op de begraafplaats Driehuis-Westerveld door de familie Fortuyn aan het Meertens Instituut te Amsterdam geschonken. Het materiaal is er in het archief opgenomen en raadpleegbaar voor onderzoek. Volkert van der Graaf killed Fortuyn on May 6, 2002, days before national elections in which Fortuyn was set to win big on an anti-immigration platform that upended the then-progressive Dutch political landscape. Fortuyn's slaying shocked a nation that had not seen anything like it. Voters flocked to the party of the martyred Fortuyn. Shooting. Fortuyn was 54 years old when he was shot dead by 32-year-old Volkert van der Graaf in a car park outside a radio studio where Fortuyn had just given an interview to Ruud de Wild at 3FM. The attacker was pursued by Fortuyn's driver, Hans Smolders; he was arrested shortly afterwards while still in possession of the handgun used to.
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An animal rights activist who assassinated a right-wing Dutch politician is being released after serving 12 years of an 18-year sentence. Volkert van der Graaf shot dead Pim Fortuyn days before. Pim Fortuyn's assassination. What started with shit-filled pies and death threats ended in assassination. On May 6, 2002, just a few days before the elections, the 'lone wolf' Volkert van der Graaf shot Pim Fortuyn at point-blank range outside of the studios in Hilversum. In court, Van der Graaf claimed he saw the need to kill Fortuyn because he was a threat to Dutch society and used. Pim Fortuyn during an interview in Rotterdam on 3 May 2002. Photograph: Robert Vos/EPA. The animal rights activist whose 2002 assassination of a populist anti-immigration politician plunged the. Fortuyn transformed Dutch politics. Paul Vreeker/Reuters. Fortuyn's party, List Pim Fortuyn (LPF), went on to win 26 of the 150 available seats in the May 2002 elections, more than 17% of the.
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Fortuyn was born in 1948 in Velsen, northwest of Amsterdam, and christened Wilhelmus Petrus Simon—Pim for short. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic but apparently always had trouble with the. Staff and agencies. Mon 6 May 2002 17.21 EDT. Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn, who led his anti-immigration party to a position of prominence in the Netherlands, has been assassinated.
On the one hand the Pim Fortuyn List, as its name implies, was the quintessence of a one-man band. Without its leader, the party is bereft of recognisable or credible names, and might well. On Friday, several places in the country will commemorate the murder of Pim Fortuyn 20 years ago. The Beeld van Pim Foundation and political party Leefbaar Rotterdam, among others, are organizing a memorial march, and Rotterdam is commemorating the former politician with a symposium in the city hall. Two decades after his murder, two-thirds of Netherlands residents are positive about Fortuyn.
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Pim Fortuyn, maverick right-wing populist and leading candidate in upcoming national elections in Netherlands, is shot and killed by gunman in parking lot of radio station in town of Hilversun. Deze site is een eerbetoon aan Pim Fortuyn en bevat informatie over zijn leven en de moord door mileu-activist en terrorist Volkert van der Graaf. graf in Driehuis werd door ca. 150.000 mensen bezocht. Gemiddeld 1,5 miljoen Nederlanders hebben vrijdag 10 mei 2002 naar de rechtstreekse uitzending over de uitvaart van Pim Fortuyn gekeken..
