“I don’t know what action to take. I will report a few people who have threatened me,” says Van Roosmalen at the table at Jinek. “Preferably” he would also report to Ongehoord Nederland and chairman Arnold Karskens, who paid attention to it in the Ongehoord Nieuws program. Presenter Arlette Adriani drew a comparison with the critical remarks that PvdA leader Marcel van Dam made about LPF leader Pim Fortuyn twenty years ago. According to Adriani, Van Dam’s comments also led to the murder of Fortuyn in 2002. She suggested that history can repeat itself through Van Roosmalen’s column.
“I noticed immediately after the column that not everyone took the column as irony,” says Van Roosmalen at the table at the RTL talk show. “I’ve been verbally abused and threatened all day.” The columnist then decided to share the messages he received online. On Thursday he also received an NSB flag in the letterbox. “These people cannot be reasoned with,” he concludes.