The appeal court in The Hague yesterday acquitted a Rotterdam man of threatening MP Geert Wilders.

The man, who says he is an artist, set up monuments on the street for Wilders as if he had been assassinated.

A district court in Rotterdam acquitted the man, Jonas Staal, in August 2007. Like the lower court, the appeal court ruled yesterday that there was insufficient evidence of a threat. The altars did not involve “any announcement of an anticipated death of Wilders nor a reference to the way in which this would happen”, the judges stated.

 

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