Dutch politician, founder and leader of the Party for Freedom Geerts Wilders wants to postpone the appeal in his hate speech trial against Moroccans until the Dutch Public Prosecutor decides what to do with the discrimination charges against D66 leader Alexander Pechtold over comments he made about Russians, reports NLTimes. Wilders and his lawyer sent a postponement request to the Court of Appeal in The Hague on March the 1st, insisting that the charges against Pechtold are based on the same
«I waited for this fight for so long,» said the Dutch-Moroccan kick-boxer Badr Hari, yesterday after defeating his Dutch opponent Hesdy Gerge, reports Telegraaph. It had been eight years since the two men had not met in a fight. In 2010, Badr Hari was disqualified for kicking his opponent's face on the ground and trying to get up. Hesdy Gerge was declared the winner. «Hesdy has a big heart, but mine is even bigger so I think there will soon be a new revenge,» he said
The Dutch authorities will appeal against a court’s decision demanding the extradition of Said Chaou to Morocco, a Dutch diplomatic source told MAP news agency. «The Minister of Justice and Security and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have taken note of the court's decision on the extradition of Said Chaou accused of drug trafficking», Désirée Bonis the Dutch ambassador in Rabat told the same source. «The Dutch Minister of Justice and Security and the
The 17-year-old Moroccan-Dutch boy, killed on Friday in a shooting at an Amsterdam community center will be laid to rest in Morocco at the end of this week, Abdou Menebhi, a man close to the family told RTL Nieuws as reported by NL Times. «The family is very sad, angry and feels powerless», he told the same source. Meanwhile, minister delegate for Moroccans Living Abroad and Migration Affairs, Abdelkrim Benatiq, contacted the deceased's father by phone to offer him the
A 17-year-old Moroccan-Dutch national was killed on Friday in Amsterdam by a stray bullet during a shooting. The criminal incident is one of many liquidation attempts that took place in the same neighborhood, targeting the safety of immigrants in the city.
Karim Adduchi, a designer, has been named one of the 30 most influential people under 30 by Forbes magazine.
A Moroccan-Dutch woman is to appear in court, Thursday, in Rotterdam for abusing her 9-year-old son, she believed he is possessed by spirits, reports Dutch News quoting Volkskrant. The mother, 39, is convinced that her son is possessed by a Djinn. According to the same source, the kid was placed in foster care in 2016. Speaking to Volkskrant, the woman’s lawyer indicated that the mother thought that she was healing her son. «Abuse means you are hurting someone on purpose, and that
In a right-wing demonstration that took place in Rotterdam’s central station on Saturday, Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, made discriminating remarks about Morocco, reports AFP. «We live here, not in Morocco, we don't live in Turkey or in Saudi Arabia, but in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands», said the founder and the current leader of the Party for Freedom while protesting alongside 700 people denouncing «discrimination against ordinary Dutch citizens in favor of
A 14-year-old girl was denied entry on a GVB bus in Amsterdam for looking Moroccan, NL Times reported on Tuesday. Her mother Dounia Tapijt, explained that on the 21st of November her daughter and another girl were waiting for bus 38 in Amsterdam Noord, from Elzenhagen to Molenwijk. According to her account the two girls were told by the bus driver that «they had to wait outside». When the teenager asked why, she was told by the same person that he would rather «not have that
Peter Hoekstra, the new US ambassador to the Netherlands, has made headlines in 2015 following an interview conducted by the Dutch public channel NOS where he made anti-Muslim comments. After a phase of denial, the diplomat apologized this Saturday, reports the AFP news agency. Indeed, on December 23, the American diplomat «denied his claims and said they were fake news before retracting,» said the same source. In a statement, Peter Hoekstra apologized saying : «I made