Liberal Snotnosed Journalist Goes To Church To Harass Perishoners Who Broke COVID Lockdowns In The Netherlands, Gets Run Over, Assaulted

Police in the staunchly Protestant village of Urk have arrested a 35-year-old man who attempted to drive into a journalist reporting on the decision of a local church to welcome hundreds of worshippers despite coronavirus.

The man is suspected of trying to hit Mark Baanders, a journalist with populist broadcaster Powned when he wanted to interview worshippers heading for the Sion church. Church officials said last week that they would ignore the government’s recommendation to limit the number of worshippers to 30 and to ban singing.

Church elder Hessel Snoek told Trouw last week the church had decided to take the step out of concern for its congregation’s ‘spiritual welfare’.

There were also confrontations between journalists and churchgoers in the Zuid-Holland town of Krimpen aan de IJssel, where the Mieras church also decided to open its doors in defiance of the government. One churchgoer, there was also arrested in Krimpen for attacking a reporter from local broadcaster Rijnmond.