protesters gathered outside the minister’s home<\/a> in support of those on the Global Sumud Flotilla. <\/p>\nA boat had been attempting to deliver aid to Gaza when it was intercepted by Israeli forces off the coast of the Palestinian territory. <\/p>\n
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and three New Zealanders were among those detained.<\/p>\n
Peters said today’s incident “is the type of violent hate-filled behaviour we warned about in the past few days about the radical left”.<\/p>\n
“When we have protesters, political bloggers, and MPs alike encouraging this behaviour, posting politician\u2019s home addresses online, and acting with pure ignorance and extremism, this is the result. <\/p>\n
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A shattered window of Winston Peters’ house in Auckland. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
“This is the slippery slope that the left has been on the pathway of radicalisation for some time.” <\/p>\n
The NZ First leader said New Zealanders “need to be deeply concerned about where our country is going and see who are the perpetrators of this divisive and violent behaviour”. <\/p>\n
“All of New Zealand needs to be deeply concerned.”<\/p>\n
A 1News reporter at the scene said there were several police vehicles outside the house, and a forensic examination was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says a “disgusting coward” has smashed a window in a “truly gutless attack”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,67,111,43,139,69,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-61914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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