The video showing Thierry Baudet receiving a hard blow to the head caused laughter in the Today Inside studio last night. Not at the table, but in the stands.
Thierry Baudet was physically attacked last night at the University of Ghent. The politician had traveled there to give a lecture and upon arrival he was hit hard on the head with an umbrella. The images (see below) were shown shortly after the incident in Today Inside, where the audience reacted in a strange way.
‘There is laughter’
VI often shows videos of people falling or hurting themselves, and the idea is to make the audience laugh. Apparently the studio did not know how to respond to the attack on Baudet. “There is laughter here, but I think it is intense,” notes Rutger Castricum.
Wilfred Genee doesn’t think it’s a laughing matter either: “Yes, I think so too.”
Sacrilege
Rutger believes that you should keep your hands off politicians. “Especially because it concerns a politician. I think it’s sacrilege to even touch a politician, let alone this.”
Johan: “You have to keep your claws off everyone.”
Rutger: “That’s right. I find it really shocking.”
Not by chance
Johan states that Belgium is in any case extremely dangerous. “It doesn’t happen by chance in Belgium, does it? Because you could hear from that boy that he was not Belgian. Of course there are very nasty groups there in those Belgian cities, right? They are very aggressive.”
Wilfred: “Yes, especially in Brussels. Molenbeek and all those kinds of neighborhoods are not good.”
Johan: “Yes, and he walks in there so cheerfully, but then the Netherlands is a lot friendlier than Belgium.”
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The images of the attack on Thierry Baudet: