News about Thierry Baudet

As right-wing populists gain ground in polls, a shocking moment for a Dutch far-Right MP is violently assaulted with a beer bottle in a bar two days before the general election in the Netherlands

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 21, 2023
On Monday evening, Thierry Baudet, the head of the Forum for Democracy, was talking to people in a bar in Groningen, when a man wielding a visible beer bottle lunged at him. As the man suddenly and violently struck him next to his eye and on the side of the head at least three times, the politician was addressing clients. As bystanders overpowered Baudet, 40, was quickly led away. The politician was admitted to a nearby hospital and cared for by a trauma surgeon, according to his party. According to the website, a security guard was wounded as a result.