Anti-Islam party leader Geert Wilders is preparing his case ahead of any prosecution for his ‘fewer Moroccan’ remarks, the Telegraaf reports on Thursday.

The Telegraaf says it has emails in its possession in which Wilders asks a member of his staff to look into the background of the two public prosecutors charged with sifting through the thousands of complaints made against the remark.

‘Google them, please,’ Wilders wrote. ‘I want to know everything from now and the past, political affinity, membership of hockey club, earlier cases handled, mothers-in-law, the whole lot, etc.’

According to inside sources, Wilders was immediately aware he could be prosecuted after he led his supporters in an anti-Moroccan chant following the local elections in March, the Telegraaf says.

He has already appointed leading defence lawyer Geert-Jan Knoops to represent him if a prosecution does go ahead.