12 years Imprisonment for Incitement Murder of Mr Wilders
Den Haag, 11-09-2023The Hague District Court has sentenced a 37-year-old man from Pakistan for attempted incitement of the murder of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, sedition and threat. In August 2018, this man had posted a video on YouTube, in which he promised to pay a certain amount of money to anyone who would kill Mr Wilders. The court has now ruled that a long-term unconditional term of imprisonment is the only suitable punishment for these types of offences. As such, the suspect has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

