From The Religion Of Peace

Netherlands: Man who murdered pro-freedom politician Pim Fortuyn “to protect Muslims” is a free man, no supervision

MAY 1, 2020 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER19 COMMENTS

Van der Graaf explained that he murdered Fortuyn, a Leftist politician who was smeared as “far right” for opposing mass Muslim migration into the Netherlands on human rights grounds, “to protect Muslims.” What will van der Graaf do to protect them now?

“Volkert van der Graaf officially a completely free man again,” translated from “Volkert van der Graaf officieel weer volledig vrij man,” The Post Online, April 30, 2020 (thanks to RB):

Volkert van der Graaf was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for the murder of politician Pim Fortuyn and is now a free man. Van der Graaf shot Fortuyn dead on May 6, 2002 at the Mediapark in Hilversum, where the politician had just given a radio interview. The police were able to arrest Van der Graaf near the crime scene shortly after the murder.

Van der Graaf (50) was convicted on appeal in 2003 by the Amsterdam court of appeal. The court had also imposed an eighteen-year sentence upon him, after a demand from the Public Prosecution Service for a life sentence. The Justice Service saw the murder not only as an attack on the politician, but also on democracy. The court did not follow that line of reasoning. The prosecution also demanded a life sentence on appeal, but the sentence remained unchanged.

In recent years, Van der Graaf no longer had to be in prison because – since May 2014 – he was on parole. He had to comply with various conditions, such as a duty to report and a ban on talking to the media. Van der Graaf then successfully challenged a number of conditions in legal proceedings.

“Given the imposed sentence, the probation period of the conditional release is six years, which means that the probation period ends on April 30, 2020,” wrote the OM in an explanation on Thursday. “With that, the person concerned has fully undergone the imposed sentence and is no longer under the supervision of the Public Prosecution Service or the probation service; there are no more conditions for him.”