(NL Times) PVV leader Geert Wilders clashed with multiple parties in a parliamentary debate on Tuesday, including about VVD adviser Soumaya Sahla and a tweet in which he suggested that Dilan Yeşilgöz’s appointment as justice minister will jeopardize his security.
Soumaya Sahla was arrested in 2005 for involvement in the terrorist Hofstad Group and later sentenced to three years in prison. She is now committed to combatting radicalization. The debate became increasingly heated when Wilders involved D66 parliamentarian Fonda Sahla. She is Soumaya’s sister. According to the PVV leader, the D66 MP gives her sister access to the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament. “Then there’s a convicted terrorist walking around.” Fonda Sahla also wears a headscarf in the Kamer, something Wilders has been campaigning against for some time.
Several parties thought Wilders’ statements went too far.
