Pim fortuyn assassination tango

Even though he was a newcomer to politics and his anti-immigrant views and well-known criticisms of Islam were widely seen as provocatively right-wing, Pim Fortuyn was undoubtedly a politician with a big following.

Some thought he might even be a future leader of the Netherlands.

Assassination On 6 May , at age 54, Fortuyn was assassinated in Hilversum, North Holland, by Volkert van der Graaf.

Fortuyn was assassinated during the Dutch national election campaign by Volkert van der Graaf, a left-wing environmentalist and animal rights activist.

The assassination shocked many residents of the Netherlands and highlighted the cultural clashes within the.

06/05 – Dutch film by assassinated director Theo van Gogh about the assassination of politician Pim Fortuyn by an animal rights activist in

In 12 months there was just one political leader who changed the narrative in a wrong way – a right-wing populist.” Fortuyn was assassinated in “If he.

The killing of such a prominent figure has shocked and horrified people everywhere.

Political killings

Such incidents have been thankfully rare in Europe in recent times.

Organised politically-motivated campaigns of violence have indeed claimed many lives - in the case of both the continuing campaign by the Basque separatists of ETA in Spain and, until the truce in Northern Ireland, the sectarian conflict between Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary fighters.

But otherwise, extreme acts of violence against any person for their political views have been few and far between.

Among such cases, the motive for the shooting of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme in 1986 was never