Filip Dewinter

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Dewinter (2018)

Philip "Filip" Michel Frans Dewinter (born September 11, 1962 in Bruges ) is a Belgian politician . In 2006 he became Chairman of the Vlaams Belang (VB) parliamentary group and a member of the Flemish Parliament .

Dewinter's maternal grandfather was active in the Resistance during World War II . His father, then a medical student, was a Nazi slave laborer .

Dewinter has been politically active since his school days in Bruges . In 1978, when he was sixteen, he founded the Vlaamse Scholieren Actie Groep , which later became the Nationalist Jong Student Association . In 1982 he moved to Antwerp to study political and social science at the University of Antwerp . He became a member of the Nationalist Student Association (NSV). In 1983 he joined the then Vlaams Blok . Two years later he moved to university and studied journalism at the Erasmus commercial college .

He quickly made a career in Vlaams Blok and became its parliamentary group leader in 1992. He also holds this position at Vlaams Belang. He has been a councilor in Antwerp and a Flemish MP since 1995.

Dewinter is married and has three daughters.

In 2010 he attended a Likud- organized conference in Israel on the fight against terrorism.

A far-right activist was sentenced to five years in prison in 2014 for plotting the murder of Filip Dewinter and hoping to drag Belgium into civil war.

Quotes

  • "There is no Belgian identity, no Belgian language, no Belgian people."

Works

  • Eigen volk eerst ( Your own people first), Verlag TYR, 1989.
  • Way met ons? - Answer aan Paula D'Hondt (Away with us? - Answer to Paula D'Hondt), Verlag TYR, 1991.
  • Een tegen Allen - Opkomst van het Vlaams Blok (One against all - the rise of the Flemish Bloc), Verlag TYR, 1993.
  • Immigration: De tijdbom tikt (Immigration - the time bomb is ticking), TYR Verlag, 1996.
  • Baas in eigen land - Over identiteit, culturele eigenheid en nationaliteit (master of one's own country - about identity, cultural peculiarity and nationality), Egmont Verlag, 2000.
  • Zerotolerantie tegen criminaliteit - Over de aanpak van de misdaad (Zero tolerance towards crime - about fighting crime), Egmont Verlag, 2004.
  • Antwerp Troef ( Antwerp Trump Card ), Egmont Verlag, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://orientxxi.info/magazine/les-yeux-doux-de-benyamin-netanyahou-al-extreme-droite-europeenne,2651
  2. ↑ https://www.rtbf.be/info/belgique/detail_quinze-sympathisants-nazis-parmi-les-candidats-vlaams-belang?id=10034172
personal data
SURNAME Dewinter, Filip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dewinter, Philip Michel Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges