‘He Missed the Fragile Part of My Bone’: Conservative Dutch Politician Speaks Out After Attack

Published on November 21, 2023

Dutch politician Thierry Baudet was working a crowded room when the bottle came down. “I just agreed to do some selfies and videos and short photographs with some members of the audience. And one of them turned out to have an empty bottle of beer in his hand and hit me on my face,” Mr. Baudet, a member of the Dutch House of Representatives, told The Epoch Times in a Nov. 21 interview from the Hague. The leader of the Forum for Democracy party pointed to the places he was hit, “near the eye” and “on the back of the skull.” After security subdued the assailant, Mr. Baudet headed to a hospital....

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