Willem Groeneveld, a Dutch journalist who writes for "Sikkom", the city of Groningen blog, was targeted by a Molotov cocktail attack on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at his home.
No injuries were to be deplored, he and his partner having managed to extinguish the fire.
An investigation was opened and the police refused to speculate on the causes of the attack.
"Sikkom" asserts that the address of their journalist had been disclosed on the Internet before the attack, specifying, however, that the police had not yet made a link between the two events.
Willem Groeneveld has often been bullied. Two years ago, stones were thrown through the windows of his home after a series of articles denouncing slum owners, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported. Last week, he said in an interview with Villamedia, a journalism website, that he "looked over his shoulder more often as he walked around town."
"After the attempted assassination of Peter R. de Vries, this is the second attack on a Dutch journalist in a short time," worried Thomas Bruning, secretary general of the Association of Dutch Journalists (NVJ), quoted by the Dutch news agency ANP. Peter R. de Vries, a criminal journalist, died on July 15 after being shot and wounded on July 6 in Amsterdam. A wave of emotion had engulfed the country following the murder of this "national hero", regularly appeared as a spokesperson for victims or in the close circle of key witnesses.
