On 23 August 2003 the journalists Peter Siebelt and Martijn Koolhoven suggested in the Dutch national newspaper De Telegraaf , under the headline " SP ' er betaalde taartactie tegen Pim " ( " SP member paid for pie demonstration against Pim " ) that Van Heijningen had financed the bombardment with pies of Pim Fortuyn on 14 March 2002 , about a month and a half before the populist right-wing leader was murdered . As coordinator of XminY he would have been responsible for paying a subsidy of € 450 to a Give-away shop in Hoenderloo . Later , two people who worked for the organisation which ran the shop were arrested in connection with the " pie-ing " of Fortuyn . In December 2003 , following a complaint from Van Heijningen , the Raad voor de Journalistiek ( Journalism Council ) , the body responsible for upholding journalistic standards in the Netherlands , issued the following ruling : ' This report represents such a stain on the ( character of ) the complainants ( Van Heijningen and the SP - ed . ) that it should not have been published without a proper factual basis . Since any such basis is lacking , the defendants have , with the publication of this headline , overstepped the bounds . ’ De Telegraaf ignored requests for rectification
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Assassination of Pim Fortuyn
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