Published 17 April 2024 at 08.59
Foreign. Police in Brussels stormed the conservative NatCon conference on Tuesday.
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Brexit profiler Nigel Farage gave a speech as a large number of police officers occupied the conference in Brussels with the aim of shutting it down.
Among the other invited participants are Britain's former Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
It was Braverman who got to step on stage after Farage and inform about the arrival of the police.
The police stated that the decision to shut down the event was because it threatened “public order”, writes Politico.
Nigel Farage is hated by the bureaucrats in Brussels having heckled them during his time in the European Parliament.
On his way away from the conference, he spoke about how he had been treated in the city in the past and called the decision to intervene against the conference “monstrous”.
The organizers of the conference have invited the responsible Muslim mayor Emir Kir to discuss the matter.
Police have arrived at the venue with an order to shut NatCon down for creating a public disturbance.
The conference is extremely peaceful. There is absolutely no public disturbance. Guests, including esteemed scholars and elected leaders, are enjoying hearing civilized… pic.twitter.com/RaGWbQAohf
— National Conservatism (@NatConTalk) April 16, 2024