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Netherlands: Far-right activists convicted

01 July 1997

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Five far-right activists, including Joop Glimmerveen, leader of the Nederlands Volks Unie (NVU), and Constant Custers, a leading member of the Arnhem branch of the Centrum Partij '86 (CP'86), have been sentenced to fines and suspended prison sentences for violating bans on holding demonstrations. Long-time observers will notice the heightened profile of Glimmerveen, whose organisation was the leading force on the Dutch far-right in the Seventies, before being eclipsed by Hans Janmaat's Centrum Partij. Reports last year suggested that the NVU and Glimmerveen were playing an increasingly large role in the internal life of the CP'86, which split from the Centrum Partij (now the Centrum Demokraten) in the mid-eighties. Custers and Glimmerveen being arrested during joint activities appears to confirm those reports.

NRC Handelsblad Weekeditie, 8.7.97.

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