The man who assassinated Pim Fortuyn got 18 years for the Netherlands’ first political killing in more than three centuries:


Prosecutors had demanded a life sentence for Van der Graaf, saying Fortuyn’s murder was an attack on democracy itself. Defense lawyers had said the crime should be treated like a “simple murder” and that life in jail was “unthinkable.” [Reuters, 4/15/03]

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