Fact-check: Has the Netherlands banned Antifa?

United States President Donald Trump connected Monday signed an enforcement bid labelling Antifa arsenic a "domestic violent organisation" successful the country.

In turn, posts alleging that the Netherlands has designated Antifa arsenic a violent organisation gained traction, with immoderate being viewed hundreds of thousands of times crossed societal media.

In 1 X station viewed much than 300,000 times, 1 idiosyncratic writes, "BREAKING: The Netherlands has present officially designated Antifa a panic radical aft a question was passed. The satellite is cracking down connected these freaks. All of Europe to follow!"

Another station viewed much than 6,000 times states, "Antifa is finished. Well done, Netherlands, successful banning earlier Trump."

Calls to prohibition Antifa crossed the Atlantic pursuing the assassination of right-wing activistic and influential Trump state Charlie Kirk successful Utah connected 10 September, arsenic the US President blamed the "radical left" for Kirk's killing.

Antifa is simply a word abbreviated for "anti-fascist", which designates a wide umbrella of loosely affiliated, decentralised activists connected the acold near of the governmental spectrum, arsenic good arsenic groups that reason fascism and neo-Nazism.

Antifa is much of an ideology than an existent organisation, though immoderate of its supporters person embraced militant tactics.

No links betwixt Kirk's suspected killer, Tyler Robinson, and immoderate different left-wing groups — including Antifa — person been uncovered to date.

According to US authorities, Robinson left down slug casings featuring references to fascism, video games and net memes.

The claims astir the Dutch program to prohibition Antifa look to beryllium rooted successful disorder implicit however the parliamentary process works.

A radical of politicians precocious tabled a question to prohibition Antifa and designate it a violent organisation, alleging that it threatens politicians, uses violence, and besides intimidates students, arsenic good arsenic journalists.

On 18 September, the question was passed done a hand-raising vote, obtaining a bulk of 76 retired of 150 votes.

The question was tabled by Geert Wilders, the person of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), and Caroline van der Plas, laminitis of the right-wing Farmer Citizen Movement (BBB) party.

Both Wilders and van der Plas beryllium to parties which were portion of the Netherlands' ruling conjugation earlier it precocious collapsed, portion Lidewij de Vos, who was the 3rd person to array the motion, is portion of the absorption far-right Forum for Democracy (FvD) party.

Snap elections are present scheduled for 29 October aft Wilders' enactment near the conjugation authorities successful June implicit a disagreement astir migration policy.

So, though the question was voted through, motions are recommendations, alternatively than legally binding decisions. This means that, contrary to online claims, the Netherlands has not banned Antifa.

The adjacent steps stay successful the hands of the authorities and the cabinet, who are not nether immoderate work to transportation motions through, unless they interest a question of nary confidence.

Euronews' verification squad contacted the Netherlands' House of Representatives, which confirmed that "it is present up to the ministers however to woody with this motion."