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Fearless Dutch journo who told Greek PM to ‘stop lying’ called a ‘Turkish spy’

A seasoned Dutch journalist who accused Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of lying about the pushbacks of migrants by authorities said Wednesday that she plans to leave Greece out of concern for her safety. “I am being targeted and threatened by pro-government media and extreme right factions,” Ingeborg Beugel told the Dutch online newspaper NU. "Mitsotakis is not used to direct questions and responded in a very authoritarian manner. He thought he had managed to silence the press for the past two years,” said Beugel. She noted that she was even physically threatened as a result of a systematic hate campaign. "When I was walking home along a dark street, a man threw a stone at my head. He called me a Turkish spy and told me to go to [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. The stone hit my forehead, so I ran home very fast. That was a bit of a shock,” she said.