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Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (Dutch: [ˈpɪɱ fɔrˈtœyn] ⓘ; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in 2002.
Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch politician, was assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum, North Holland on 6 May 2002, nine days before the general election of 2002, in which he was leading the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF).
May 6, 2024 · On May 6, Pim Fortuyn, the man of free speech, was murdered. How did his death affect Dutch politics? Priding itself as the one country where the prime minister rides his bike to work, the Dutch identity experienced a new vulnerability.
May 2, 2014 · AMSTERDAM (AP) — The animal rights activist who assassinated Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was freed Friday, after serving just under 12 years in prison — years during which many of Fortuyn’s ideas, particularly his disdain of “multiculturalism” and his dislike of Muslim immigration, have become mainstream in the Netherlands.
May 2, 2014 · The Dutch authorities have released the man who murdered the flamboyant anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, now that he has served two-thirds of his jail sentence.
Apr 11, 2001 · Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, civil servant, sociologist, author and professor who formed his own party, Pim ...
Sep 1, 2002 · On July 19th, ten weeks after he had been buried in the little town of Driehuis, just outside Amsterdam, Pim Fortuyn was dug up again. The disinterment was scheduled for 7 p.m., and, exactly on...
The Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002) altered the terms of political debate in his country during his short career in the electoral arena, which ended with his assassination in May of 2002. His murder was, in the words of London's Daily Telegraph , “the most prominent political assassination in the Netherlands since that of William the ...
May 7, 2002 · Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, a populist maverick whose criticism of immigration and Islam propelled his rapid rise, was shot and killed Monday outside a radio studio in an Amsterdam suburb.
May 9, 2002 · Dutch maverick politician Pim Fortuyn was a colourful figure in what many voters complained was a bland political landscape in the Netherlands.
