Pakistani who ‘threatened Wilders in snack bar video’ is in court

(Dutch News) The Pakistan national arrested at The Hague’s main railway station in August last year after placing a video on Facebook threatening to attack Geert Wilders appeared in court for a procedural hearing on Monday.

The 28-year-old faces charges of making terrorist threats, preparing to carry out a murder with terrorist intent and incitement.

The police were alerted to the film, which was made at a branch of the Doner Company at the railway station in late August 2018.

In the video, which is in Urdu, Junaid I. reportedly states: “I am just five minutes from parliament where the exhibition is” — a reference to Wilders’ planned Mohammed cartoon competition.

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