Day 2 process Wilders: What can we expect?

1) What's on the program?

The court makes today from 10:00 known which requests Geert Wilders will be awarded in the lawsuit. Wilders should come to court because of his controversial statements in Moroccan-March 2014.

2) What applications are they?

Hearing several expert witnesses
Wilders said that he wants to hear a number of people through his lawyer, Geert-Jan Knoops as an expert witness.

That Maurice de Hond (pollster), Dick Schoof (the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism), Peter van Koppen (rechtspycholoog), Jaco Dagevos (Professor of Integration), Amos Guiora (American expert) and an anonymous witness.

Statement about the hack / leak
Judgments shall be done by the court on the possible closure of the case. Lawyer Knoops has prompted because the draft pleadings was leaked a day before the pre-trial to the AD. Knoops would have clear where the leak is.

The Prosecution sees no reason to freeze the case. "Until now the leak has no consequences. There is no basis to suspend the case," the prosecutor said.

Research into the leak
Wilders has also asked the court to investigate the leak. In addition to an examination of the lawyer, so Wilders wants that led the court investigates the leak of the draft pleadings. Wider than investigating lawyer Knoops.

Call for other courts
The PVV leader has one of the judges hearing his trial asked to resign. According to him, the judge, Elianne van Rens, in the past criticized Wilders.

They would be in the television Looking into the soul of a journalist Coen Verbraak the court's decision at its previous process to assign to have criticized the disqualification of the judge.

Today will see whether the court will respond to this call.

3) Is Geert Wilders himself present?
We do not know for sure; but probably the PVV politician myself not to. His spokesman was not available for comment. Wilders' lawyer announced that he officially has not had deregistration of his client.

However, it is unlikely that he himself was present in court. Today is indeed also the debate about Ard van der Steur.

The Minister of Security and Justice must explain his actions surrounding the attacks in Brussels. Wilders will probably prefer that debate. Knoops also think that the PVV leader prefers to be in the debate.

4) What about the investigation into the leak?
Adcoaat Knoops announces RTL News that he let experts examine whether it has been hacked. He does not expect that there will be more clarity in the short-term.

5) Does Wilders' lawyer, Geert-Jan Knoops say something?
That's unclear. The intention is that only the court spoke. Lawyer Knoops can still post notes or ask a question. But it can always fall through.

6) How long will it take?
On paper it should be a short session: an hour will be normal. But you never know. It remains a special case, with an unusual suspect. The last session started at 9 o'clock in the morning and was only ended around 19:30.

http://www.metronieuws.nl/ By: Yahoo! News Photo: Reuters