New picture of Van Gogh murderer released

The police have just released this picture of Mohammed Bouyeri. It was taken on the second of November. Bouyeri's lawyer Peter Plasman asked for a preliminary injunction barring the publication of the photograph, but Mr. Plasman's concerns for Bouyeri's privacy were not enough to convince the judge.

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I'm not a bigot

This test says so, anyway. Bear in mind that being a centrist by American standards puts me pretty much in the right wing spectrum from a Dutch perspective.

(Thanks to Bruce Bawer for unwittingly pointing out the existence of this test to me. Mr. Bawer lived in Amsterdam, and though his NYT article got the street name wrong where Van Gogh was shot, he has a lot more insight into Dutch culture than many other foreign journalists. For an example of what I mean, read this fisking of an article in the New York Post, or my own cynical review of a NY Times editorial.)

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