Earlier, two locations also canceled the conference, and the police went out to the third location barely two hours following the morning start.
The National Conservative Conference (NatCon), which was partly organized by the MCC and where Viktor Orbán was supposed to speak, started at 9 am on Tuesday morning in Brussels. But barely two hours following the start, the police appeared at the entrance and stopped the event – just as the pro-Brexit Nigel Farage (UKIP) was giving a lecture inside, he calculated. be a Politico.
According to the newspaper’s correspondent, the police “for possible disorder” referred to. From the stage, Farage called the Belgian authorities’ actions appalling and said he knew they would not be welcome in Brussels.
Frank Füredi, head of the MCC in Brussels, called the official action a dictatorial action. According to him, the police cited technical reasons, while they had political goals in suspending the event. “The owner of the venue was told that the electricity would be turned off if he did not end the event” – he added.
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According to the paper, police left the scene shortly following 11 a.m. and returned at 12:45 p.m. with an official order handed to Anthony Gilland, one of the organizers of the event, and a member of the MCC. Gilland said that one of the reasons given by the police was that there would be a counter-demonstration at 5:00 p.m. and that they might not guarantee the freedom of speech of the participants at the MCC event.
Earlier, two possible locations had already canceled the conference, where it started today, it was already the third.
Alongside Orbán, former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman and far-right French politician Eric Zemmour were also scheduled to speak at NatCon.
According to MTI, Balázs Orbán, who was present at the scene, told journalists that “Brussels is no longer the capital of freedom, but a tool of leftist, progressive liberal oppression”.
Tamás Menczer, Fidesz’s newly appointed communications director on his Facebook page he wrote: “The whole of Brussels is working to silence Viktor Orbán”. According to Menczer, the previous two venues also canceled the conference under pressure from the left-wing mayor and the far-left Antifa, because the “War supporters want to silence the voice of peace at all costs”.