He had already distinguished himself by his sympathy for Vladimir Putin, described as “friendly head of state” (with rumors of occult funding at stake), by his opposition to a Euro-Ukrainian association treaty in 2016 or his refusal to condemn the anti-Semitic remarks of one of his relatives, but the Dutch deputy Thierry Baudet, leader of the Forum for Democracy party (FvD, extreme right) has reached a new milestone.
Monday October 17, he affirmed, in an interview given to the podcast “Geopolitics & Empire”, that the world was, according to him, managed by “a conspiracy of evil reptiles”. An idea in vogue in Anglo-Saxon conspiratorial circles which was theorized by the British author David Icke.
The latter must, in principle, speak on November 6, in Amsterdam, during a demonstration called by the coalition Together for the Netherlands, which brings together far-right activists, anti-vaccines and “yellow vests”. “. All intend to protest in particular against the role of the European Union in the war in Ukraine and its support for the authorities in kyiv.
The revival of the idea of reptiles that would take on human form to dictate their law by the leader of a party which had created the surprise, in March 2019, by winning the senatorial elections in the Netherlands, undoubtedly weighed on the vote which took place the next day in the Parliament of The Hague. Tuesday, October 18, a large majority of the 150 deputies of the Second Chamber voted for the suspension, for eight days, of the mandate of Mr. Baudet. An extremely rare decision in the parliamentary history of the country, officially motivated by the fact that the elected official had also refused to declare his income and his additional functions – in particular as an editor.
A commission responsible for monitoring the integrity of the members of the assembly had been seized, as the law authorizes, of a complaint filed by a citizen. Bert Van den Braak, professor of parliamentary history at the University of Maastricht, demanded transparency on all of Mr. Baudet’s income. The latter lamented “an attack on democracy”. The elected representatives of his group as well as those of the Freedom Party of Geert Wilders, his far-right rival, left the room in protest.
” Metaphor “
Mr. Baudet’s refusal to comply with the rules in force in Parliament was less surprising, however, than his remarks on the « reptiles » that would rule the planet. Notably because David Icke, the man who launched this thesis is, moreover, a Holocaust denier. Taking up an anti-Semitic antiphon according to which the Jews would drink the blood of children, he affirms that the current reptiles would attack blond children to drain them of their blood.
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