(NL Times) The suspect accused of threatening far-right leader Geert Wilders, and preparing a terrorist plot, should be sent to prison for six years, the Public Prosecution (OM) said during closing statements against Junaid I. in court on Tuesday. Wilders was present in the courtroom earlier in the day, but declined the opportunity afforded him to make a statement as one of the victims in the case, saying he only wanted to look into the eyes of the suspect.
Junaid I. also stands accused of sedition with terrorism as a motive. The 27-year-old Pakistani man was arrested after traveling from France to The Hague in August, where he was eventually arrested at a train station.
He allegedly wanted to attack Wilders who had planned to host a competition for the best cartoon depicting the prophet Mohammed.
