She heard that agents ‘had to fight for their lives’. Els ‘Right’ (26) breaks when she talks about it. Crying: ,, Really so terrible. I am completely sick of it. We wanted a noise against the asylum policy, but a violent group hijacked the demonstration. Once they started riots, there was no stopping. “
Extremely violent riots in The Hague at ‘Els Right’ Demonstration: Police car in Brand, D66 Party Office attacked and Vechtsen
Initiator Els from Zoetermeer – who wants to keep her last name for security reasons necessarily secret – has been active in the world of right -wing politics for years. She changed the photo between PVV, FVD and SGP, is on the photo with Geert Wilders, once visited SGP MP Roelof Bisschop, spoke about Christianity and The Passion (In her eyes ‘a blasphemic circus of Dutch celebrities’) and raised around 20,000 euros for the demonstration in The Hague via crowdfunding.
‘We had security in order’
That manifestation resulted in a true, extremely violent battle between hooligans and police. ,, We had the security in order, that was really well arranged. But that group of rioters came especially with the intention of discharging things and they were simply stronger than the security guards. Then the police had to act. Incidentally, Antifa was also present, which spread on social media the call that they wanted to ‘monitor’. When rioters wanted to get up the A12 to block it, I still called: “Don’t go!” But it was already too late. “
She was warned of possible escalation. Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet did not come for security reasons, she says, other speakers did occur until the event was canceled. “Fortunately, Geert and Thierry did not come afterwards.”
Should she have known better? ,, Maybe I am naive, I am still young, but I wanted to show that we are stronger than that and wanted to make it a beautiful day. It is becoming increasingly grim in the Netherlands and I am very shocked. It is absolutely not okay to use violence and certainly not against the police that I want to thank. That it went so, also for them, terrible. ”
Els ‘Right’ grew up in a strict Christian environment and came into contact with Geert Wilders and the PVV through a project on her MBO course. Why did she decide to become active in the world of ‘Right of the Netherlands’? ,, Because I share those right -wing positions and I want to speak about it. I also think it is important to keep talking to each other. ”
Never organize such a thing again
In the meantime, right -wing activist Netherlands is not bad after these riots with many citizens, also with conservatives – the reactions on social media.
Els: ,, A peaceful demonstration against asylum policy and Islamization, as was possible in London last week, is apparently no longer possible in the Netherlands. I don’t think about organizing something like that again. ”