Van Aartsen Thursday evening during the emergency debate on the Hague city council on the recent demonstrations in Schilderswijk. Photo ANP / Koen van Weel
” It was a smear whipped, focused on my person. “That sets the Hague Mayor Jozias van Aartsen today in an interview with NRC Handelsblad on the outcry over the unrest in recent demonstrations in The Hague .
In recent weeks arose Van Aartsen “the image of a city where total anarchy”, partly because in some media widely reported stay in France. “A vacationing technocrat who condone anti-Semitism would allow,” he says sarcastically. Van Aartsen chose not to respond immediately, he explains:
“I have my spokesperson dictated a statement that I was touched by the violent allegations. Maybe that’s old-fashioned. I think that as a politician must not give in to this kind hetzerij by appearing on the tube. Even if you know that further swells by that decision, the witch hunt. “
Van Aartsen says nobody advised him to come out of his break. “I have the dilemma shared by a number of people and no one said, ‘Mayor, come back.” And I’m not a cocky type that radiates: I do not do “
The mayor received Thursday night during an emergency debate in the Hague city council of a number of parties criticized his performance around the demonstrations.. He announced during the debate that no demonstrations may be held longer in Schilderswijk moment
That Wilders events in The Hague eagerly seized to attack, Van Aartsen not surprised the mayor.
“We have a history together. I live there for ten years. Since then, he seizes every opportunity to put like a coward, a wimp or an even stronger accentuated equivalent me down. Oh well, so be it. The symbol of the PVV is a gull, if I remember correctly. At four o’clock the beasts begin to scream. That’s the thing Wilders. “
Read the whole interview with Van Aartsen NRC Weekend .
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