Anti-Islam party leader Geert Wilders said at the weekend that two Dutch jihad fighters have been jailed for planning an attack on him.

Wilders was speaking following the arrest of a Belgian jihad fighter for the attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels in which three people were shot dead and another wounded.

The PVV leader said the information about the Dutch arrests came from the Dutch counter terrorism organisation NCTV.

A spokesman for the NCTV told the media that ‘no details are ever given about planned attacks on Wilders’.

On Sunday evening, the public prosecution office denied that radicalised jihad fighters were jailed on suspicion of any such attack.

Two men are in jail for having travelled to Syria to fight with rebels in the civil war, but there is no evidence they were planning an attack on Wilders, according to press reports.