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Dutch Minister of Health Hugo de Jonge
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Due to the tense Corona situation, the Dutch police have stepped up protective measures for Health Minister Hugo de Jonge.
In the past few weeks, there have been several threatening incidents near the 54-year-old's home in Rotterdam.
A mobile police station with several surveillance cameras was installed there on Friday, as reported by a Dutch news agency ANP.
The police confirmed that "visible and invisible measures were taken" in front of the house of the Christian Democratic politician, who is also the deputy prime minister.
A tough lockdown came into force in the Netherlands a few days before Christmas.
The government justified this with the rapid spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Many citizens reacted with disappointment, but there were no major violent protests like in the previous months.
The private address De Jonges has been circulating on social networks for some time - combined with the call to spread it.
In the past few days, a package that was initially classified as suspicious was found in front of the minister's house, but it turned out to be harmless.
A masked man later posted video recordings of himself in front of the house, reported the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper.
Over the intercom, he asked to speak to the minister about the government's corona measures.
He was arrested on suspicion of threat.
Death threats against German politicians
Corona deniers and the lateral thinking movement are also radicalizing in Germany.
Last week, police officers raided the homes of six members of a Telegram chat group because of death threats against Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU).
The accused are suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence that endangers the state.
The members of this chat group, which combines the rejection of vaccinations, the state and the current corona policy, "said in the chat group mentioned and at non-virtual meetings, among other things, plans to kill the Saxon Prime Minister and other representatives of the Saxon state government," according to a press release of the State Criminal Police Office of Saxony.
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