When My University Suspended A Right-Wing Identitarian Student

Stephan De Winter
Sep 9, 2018 · 9 min read
A Flemish flag at the Gravensteen (castle in Ghent)

There is a storm raging at Belgian Universities. After a one hour documentary called Pano, a state-sponsored program at the national broadcast, the University of Ghent (UGent) has suspended Dries Van Langenhoven, leader-founder of a right wing, identitarian youth movement called ‘Schild en Vrienden’ (meaning ‘Shield and Friends’). In the documentary, journalist Tim Verheyden

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