André Peperkoorn is a Dutch military general, counter-terrorism official and former politician. Peperkoorn 2014-2

Peperkoorn served as a lieutenant colonel in the Dutch military police and later a counter-terrorism officer with the

Royal Marechaussee The Royal Marechaussee (, abbreviated to KMar) also translated as the Royal Military Constabulary, is the national gendarmerie force of the Netherlands, performing military and civilian police duties. It is also one of the two national police ...

and Dutch ministry of defense. Ahead of the

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, Peperkoon was approached by

Pim Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) in ...

to stand for his party the

Pim Fortuyn List The Pim Fortuyn List (, LPF) was a political party in the Netherlands that existed from 2002 to 2008 at a national level and was named after its eponymous founder Pim Fortuyn, a former university professor and political columnist. The party was ...

. He was placed seventh on the LPF's electoral list for the Member of the House of Representatives after the original seventh candidate Martin Kievits was expelled from the LPF after being accused of assault. Peperkoorn was subsequently elected to the House in 2002, but did not take up his seat and renounced his position in politics citing difficulty with the intense media storm following the assassination of Fortuyn. His seat in parliament was taken over by

Harry Wijnschenk Hartog Hank Richard "Harry" Wijnschenk (born 24 January 1964 in Amsterdam) is a former Netherlands, Dutch politician. From 2002 to 2003 he was an MP (NL), MP for the Pim Fortuyn List (LPF), and later for the Wijnschenk Group. He briefly served a ...

. Peperkoorn subsequently returned to work for the military and attained the rank of general. He was appointed

Order of Orange-Nassau The Order of Orange-Nassau () is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands. The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has performed acts of special merits for ...

in 2018.

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