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...courage to speak out, and he was killed for his honesty," said Andrea van Es, who had placed her own bouquet on the pile in front of Fortuyn's house on a quiet square in Rotterdam. Many of the people shuffling through the streets of Rotterdam in a silent march last Tuesday, filing past his open casket in the city's cathedral on Thursday's Ascension holiday and lining the route of his cortege on Friday were moved not by his politics, but by the brutal violence that silenced him. "There was only a thin line between Pim Fortuyn...
...countrymen with controversial views on immigration. But after a gunman shot dead the flamboyant sociologist, who founded his eponymous party three months ago, thousands of Dutch, including many opponents, came together to demonstrate their horror at his death. More than 15,000 people lined the streets and 800 packed Rotterdam Cathedral for his funeral. Police arrested animal-rights campaigner Volkert van der Graaf on suspicion of the murder...
...revolving largely around implacable opposition to further Turkish immigration and the potential repatriation of immigrants already within Austria—have served as a ready model for future right-wingers. In fact, only the nationalities involved have changed from campaign to campaign. Pim Fortuyn became Mayor of Rotterdam after attacking the prevalence of gangs of Caribbean youths; the British National Party won an unprecedented 16.4 percent of the vote in the rundown industrial town of Oldham in 2001 for its anti-Pakistani policies. Le Pen, of course, focused his campaign on the criminal tendencies of North African immigrants in French...
Many fear that Fortuyn is likely to sow more fear than he dispels. "People basically voted against their own neighbors," says Rotterdam psychotherapist Danny de Vries. "This is a very worrying situation." The Turkish community in the city's Afrikaner neighborhood tried to mobilize the Muslim vote by setting up a polling station in a mosque, but turnout...
Fortuyn may have plenty of charisma, but he doesn't yet have much of a political operation. His success in Rotterdam, though, will no doubt help him add to the some 30 candidates - including doctors, lawyers and one police chief - on his Fortuyn List. The ultranationalist Vlaams Blok in neighboring Belgium, which had the strongest showing in 2000 local elections in Antwerp, has been isolated by a cordon sanitaire agreement among other parties. Whether Fortuyn should get the same treatment is already being passionately discussed in the coming months...