DVHN comments | Punishment against arsonists at journalist is an important signal. Violence is the limit

The Groningen court has sent out an important signal by imposing a sentence of five years in prison and TBS on the men who threw a firebomb at journalist Willem Groeneveld and his partner. Arson in itself is very serious. Now that freedom of the press is at stake, such an offense counts even more heavily.

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