Ad B. had said “too much.” Those were his last words in the article last Saturday in De Telegraafin which the 61-year-old Lochemer had announced which buildings would be the target of the Animal Liberation Front (Alf). He had told the journalist that the party office of the Boerburger Movement (BBB) near Deventer and a local animal transporter would “go on fire”.
“This cannot be tolerated in any way,” said party leader Caroline van der Plas on Saturday during the general meeting of members of the BBB. “I want this man to be arrested today.” The BBB reported on Saturday against Ad B., the same day he was arrested.
Several BBB politicians are burdened by threats and forms of intimidation, such as threatening letters and daubing of ownership. Party leader Van der Plas, who had to cancel election events for her safety in the past, says that threats came to her address ‘from that corner’. “I can’t say more about that,” she says by telephone.
It is not the first time that the BBB reports: Van der Plas did, for example, in 2021 Declaration against Animal Rightsby whom she felt intimidated and threatened.
On Sunday afternoon, Ad B. is not yet at home of his police interrogation, according to inquiries at his house in Lochem. B. is, according to De Telegraaf, as a self -employed advisor for the government on nature management. He is specialized in, among other things, animal -friendly relocation of martens.
Under the alias “Noah Alfer” B. profiled himself as the leading figure of Animal Liberation Front, the animal liberation fund in the Netherlands.
Ad B. is specialized in animal -friendly relocation of marten
Volkert van der G.
More than two decades after the murder of Pim Fortuyn by environmental and animal activist Volkert van der G., the violence from those circles seems to have been largely ringing. This is supported by the biennial threat of Terrorism Nederland (DTN) of the National Coordinator for the fight against terrorism and safety.
In 2020 the well -known extremist ‘Vegan streaker’ Peter J. Brand founded an Ermelose duck slaughterhouse. The DTN of October that year states that this was ‘striking’, because such actions from the animal rights movement had not occurred for thirteen years. “It is not to be expected that this individual burping will encourage a new wave of animal rights extremism in the Netherlands.”
Animal rights extremism was not mentioned in the most recent threat monitor of this year.
Caroline van der Plas thinks that violence is now increasing because of the measures to curb agriculture’s nitrogen emissions, she says on the phone. As a journalist for various media in the agricultural sector, she was in the past undercover at meetings of activists in Great Britain. “It’s a very radical current. For some, nothing goes too far.”
‘Van der Plas we do nothing’
Ad B. said in De Telegraaf that he sees BBB as a target because they “protect farmers and hunters.” Van der Plas “We don’t do anything”, but the office “is turning.”
A cell of the Animal Liberation Front, led by Peter J., who also disturbed bullfights in Spain, is, according to B., responsible for a fire in Blokker in June this year, he says in De Telegraaf. He is referring to the onset of trucks by chicken slider Plukon in Blokker in Noord-Holland-a logo of the OFF was found.
At his conviction in 2020 for the fire in Ermelo, probation scored the chance of repeating Peter J. Laag. Although B., like other activists, had problems with J., he is behind the fire in Blokker, he says in De Telegraaf.