A socialist mayor in Brussels ordered police to shut down the National Conservatism Conference being held in the city while Brexit leader Nigel Farage was speaking on Tuesday.
UPDATE 1500: Former French presidential candidate and the leader of the populist Reconquête (Reconquest) party Éric Zemmour has reportedly been barred from entering the National Conservatism Conference by police in Brussels. NatCon said that Zemmour’s “keynote address will, unfortunately, be postponed, possibly indefinitely.”
President of French populist Reconquête party Eric Zemmour is denied access by Belgium police to the “NatCon” national conservatism conference gathering conservative European politicians at the Claridge hotel in Brussels on April 16, 2024, as Brussels authorities ordered its shutdown. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP) (Photo by SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images)
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