Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 22, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Dutch police arrested a man for threatening politician Geert Wilders on TikTok. The incident comes just before the Netherlands' elections.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday that police had detained a 25-year-old man for questioning after he had issued violent threats against politicians in a livestreamed, widely shared TikTok.
The suspect specifically named far-right politician Geert Wilders in the video.
In the clip, he said he would go to parliament "with an axe" and that "heads will roll," adding that he "might (start) with Geertje," a nickname for Wilders.
After questioning, the suspect had been released, the prosecutor's office said, pending a decision on whether he would be prosecuted.
The incident comes a week before the Netherlands heads to the polls, with elections scheduled for next Wednesday.
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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