Geert Wilders, who heads the Netherlands right wing PVV freedom party reacted on June 11, 2024 to the terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi District on June 10, 2024, where nine people died, mostly pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh when terrorists opened fire at them. He said, “Don’t allow Pakistani terrorists in the Kashmir Valley to kill Hindus. Protect your people, India!” Wilders said in a post on the social media site X.
Wilders on several occasions has highlighted the issue of terrorism in Pakistan and has highlighted the plight of the Hindus in both majority Pakistan and Bangladesh. He also backed Bharatiya Janata Party former spokesperson Nupur Sharma after she got embroiled in a controversy after she allegedly made derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad.
He held a telephonic conversation with her earlier this year and called her as the symbol of freedom, not only for India but for the whole free world. For years, Wilders has lived under police protection due to numerous death threats resulting from his outspoken remarks against Islam. According to a UK based media agency, Wilders has relocated from one safe house to the another for 20 years.
“I have received many fatwas from Pakistan and Arab Imams, but I am not afraid,” he said last year. Wilders Party had been riding high in the polls since his shock triumph at the national elections last year saw it force its way into a coalition government for the first time.
Voters in Netherlands on June 7, boosted the party of anti-immigration eurosceptic Geert Wilders into the second place at the EU elections, an exit poll showed, after predictions of the far-right gains across the bloc at the four-day ballot. However, estimates based on most of the votes counted confirmed exit polls that showed a Labour / Green Left combination of was set to have won eight seats slightly away from the anti-immigration party of Geert Wilders six seats.
Meanwhile, authorities identified the nine victims of the deadly terror attack on a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir Reasi district. Among the victims are four natives from Rajasthan including a two-year deal and three from Uttar Pradesh. Ten people with gunshot wounds are among the 41 pilgrims, mostly from Uttar Pradesh undergoing treatment in three hospitals of the Jammu and Reasi districts, officials said.
Terrorists opened fire on at the bus carrying pilgrims in Reasi districts around 6:10 PM on June 11, 2024, killing nine and several injuring several others. The 53-seater bus, on its way from the Shiv Khori temple to Katra veered off the road following the barrage of the gunfire and fell into a deep gorge near the Teryath village of the Poni area.
