Ben van der Kooi from Rotterdam with two Polish-Rotterdam sympathizers present at a demonstration of the Polish Defense League in Poznan, Poland. The men have their own anti-Muslim NVU-banner included. Two EU flags are burned during the short but fierce demonstration against immigration invasion with about eighty participants. Ben van der Kooi says there was a confrontation with anti-fascists who went before them on the run.
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Do representatives of various extreme right-wing organizations participated in a commemoration of Pim Fortuyn in Rotterdam. There are people from the Dutch Defence League in the Polish Defence League. Activist Paul Peters there's behalf Identitair Verzet. Every year commemorating parties and groups such as Leefbaar Rotterdam, De Vrienden van Pim Fortuyn en Stichting Beeld van Pim the murder of their leader.
An activist Polish Defence League from Rotterdam post a photo on the internet of a homemade banner on a bridge above a motorway in Rotterdam. The logo of the Polish Defence League is stuck on the photo and the banner stands “stop Islamization”. The photo is shared on the Internet by Identitair Verzet department Rotterdam.
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Extremely right & extreme left
in the municipalities of Schiedam, Rotterdam, Vlaardingen & MaassluisThanks to a combination of increasing polarization, new internet possibilities and an ideological renewal of extreme right-wing groups in particular, in recent years there has been a revival of the phenomena of the extreme right and (in the shadow) extreme left observable in Western Europe. In the Netherlands has the refugee crisis (2013-2016) played a big role in this revival. In addition, the Zwarte Pieten discussion, which has been fed very fiercely for a few years now, seized, by both extreme- right than left, to speak of a culture war. The municipalities of Schiedam, Rotterdam, Vlaardingen and Maassluis want an answer to the question in response to these developments: “What are the dangers that arise from political extremist ideas within the region at the moment, and how can the municipalities respond effectively to this?Through qualitative research in the region, combined with the internet- and a literature search conducted in the period April-September 2019 has been performed, this report tries to answer this question.