(NL Times) On Friday, several places in the country will commemorate the murder of Pim Fortuyn 20 years ago. The Beeld van Pim Foundation and political party Leefbaar Rotterdam, among others, are organizing a memorial march, and Rotterdam is commemorating the former politician with a symposium in the city hall. Two decades after his murder, two-thirds of Netherlands residents are positive about Fortuyn and his ideas, EenVandaag found in a poll.
The march starts at Fortuyn’s former home in Rotterdam and goes to the Westerveld Cemetery in Driehuis, where the murdered politician was buried for several months. Fortuyn was later reburied in the Italian village of Provesano, where he had a second home.
Former politician Hilbrand Nawijn of the party Lijst Pim Fortuyn and others will give a speech at the Media Park in Hilversum, where Fortuyn was shot dead by Volkert van der G. on 6 May 2002.
