In 2020, Dutch lawyer Arno Van Kessel realized that Covid-19 was being used by governments to exercise malign influence on populations and began vocally opposing both the Dutch government's pandemic response measures and the subsequent Covid-19 'vaccines'.

Despite Lawyer's Detention Under Accusation of 'Terrorism', Landmark Covid-19 Lawsuit Pending Before District Court in The Netherlands

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For 5 years, despite character-assassination and harassment by Dutch authorities, van Kessel nevertheless initiated legal proceedings against the Dutch state and high-profile national and international figures like Mark Rutte, Bill Gates, Albert Bourla (Pfizer CEO), and others.

Together with his colleague Peter Stassen, and on behalf of the Stichting Recht Oprecht Foundation ('Right to rights foundation') representing seven plaintiffs who all suffered negative health outcomes as a result of Covid 'vaccinations', on July 14th 2023 van Kessel filed a civil lawsuit at the District Court of Leeuwarden.

The defendants include the Dutch government, former Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Bill Gates, and others, totaling 17 individuals and entities. The plaintiffs allege that the Covid-19 'vaccine' is actually a cloaked bioweapon, and that the alleged side-effects are deliberately chosen effects. The lawyers accuse the government of committing genocide against its own people, noting that the legal definition of genocide includes the infliction of serious bodily harm. The lawsuit seeks damages for the alleged vaccine injuries, and a legal decision from the Court over whether the Covid-19 shot is a vaccine for the health of the population, or a bioweapon. The lawsuit's outcome hinges on the plaintiffs' ability to substantiate their claims of vaccine-related harm.

In their briefs, the plaintiffs want to hear, under oath, from six expert witnesses who can prove their allegations regarding the injections being a bioweapon: Professor Dr. Francis Boyle (human rights lawyer and professor of International Law), Catherine Austin Fitts (Former US Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development), Dr. Mike Yeadon (former top scientist at Pfizer), Alexandra Latypova (former pharmaceutical industry executive), researcher Katherine Watt and Dr. Joseph Sansone (psychotherapist specializing in clinical hypnosis). One of them, Professor Boyle, co-wrote the the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the US' domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention. Van Kessel and Stassen contacted Boyle on January 12th 2025, during which meeting he agreed to testify, but he died suddenly two weeks later at the age of 74.

A significant development occurred in September 2024 when Bill Gates challenged the court's jurisdiction, citing Article 11 of the Dutch Code of Civil Procedure. The Leeuwarden District Court rejected this claim in an interim judgment, ruling that Gates must stand trial, making him the only defendant required to appear in person. The court scheduled a hearing for July 9th 2025 to address the substantive issues of the case, marking the first significant progress after two years of procedural delays, which were partly due to Gates' legal team submitting extensive objections and scheduling conflicts.

Then, on June 11th 2025, Arno van Kessel was arrested by the Dutch Special Intervention Service (DSI). During the dawn-raid on his house, he was blindfolded, arrested and immediately incarcerated. His entire family was held at gunpoint. The house was searched for hours by a team of 15 agents. The action turned out to be one in a sweep of raids in The Netherlands, in which 8 people, designated 'sovereign citizens' (people who reject state authority) were arrested.

The DSI reported that, during searches of the suspects' homes, police found firearms, ammunition, sedatives, potential explosives and "dangerous chemicals". They also seized phones and laptops. The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has stated that this 'group' is "suspected of committing criminal and terrorist offenses together, aimed at collecting or wanting to use weapons and/or dangerous substances." It was also alleged that they had planned an attack during this year's NATO summit in The Hague, which was held on the 24th and 25th of June. To date, Dutch authorities have not provided any evidence for these allegations, and stating that, "in the context of the investigation we cannot give out any information."

Van Kessel's wife has stated emphatically that her husband is wrongly associated with this 'movement', and, while specific accusations of conspiracy to commit violence against agents and institutions of the state have been leveled against some of the other suspects named in this raid, no specific allegation or evidence has yet been presented regarding van Kessel's alleged involvement.

While Dutch media is generally silent on van Kessel's incarceration, the case has attracted some attention abroad, from Sri Lanka to Brazil, where it's being framed as an attempt to suppress the Covid-19 lawsuit van Kessel was spearheading. After all, should the judge hear evidence for, and potentially rule that, the Covid-19 injections indeed constitute a bioweapon, such a ruling would have colossal criminal consequences worldwide for persons, agencies and governments involved in their roll-out. The timing of the accusation against van Kessel, that he is part of 'terrorist organization', or in some way conspired to commit terrorism, does indeed seem suspicious.

Interestingly, the DSI has been in existence since July 2006 as part of the Dutch National Police. It acts as an arrest team in cases of firearms, terrorism or dangerous suspects. Within the DSI, police officers and the military work closely together. Such investigations into 'terrorism' are also, undoubtedly, done with the knowledge or cooperation of Dutch intelligence agencies like the AIVD (General Intelligence and Security Service). The current Dutch prime minister, Dick Schoof, was previously Director-General of the AIVD, as well as the National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism (NCTV) before he became PM, so these organizations likely have much influence in the current national government. Moreover, documents obtained by FOIA requests, along with public statements made by members of the government, including the former Minister of Health, Fleur Agema, strongly indicate that Dutch Covid policies were carried out at the behest of the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) and the military alliance NATO.

The arrest took place shortly after van Kessel submitted documents for the July 9th hearing. He was brought to a maximum-security prison, reportedly blindfolded during transport, and held under strict conditions, including no contact with his wife. The Dutch Bar Association disbarred Van Kessel at the end of July, "because he is a suspected terrorist." Furthermore, the crowdfund platform GoFundMe is still failing to pay 70,000 euros in donations that have been collected for Van Kessel's legal defence because, "he is regarded as a potential terrorist." And the Dutch media - including the professional legal journals - unanimously assumes his guilt while he sits in prison. Van Kessel has, in his own words, been "financially broken by the state."

Earlier this month, the judge overseeing van Kessel's 'terrorism' case ordered that he remain in custody until the Dutch Public Prosecution Service finalizes its report, and thus hearings can be planned. These are not expected to begin until May 2026, so the prosecutor has stated that van Kessel (and five other suspects) "should remain behind bars for the protection of Dutch society, because these people have a deep-rooted conviction that the state must be overthrown" and "do not shy away from violence in doing so."

Interestingly, new evidence has come to light that the man who anonymously tipped off the public prosecutor's office that van Kessel was a "terrorist," may have had a personal vendetta against van Kessel. Dutch outlet De Andere Krant reported on December 4th: 

Van Kessel remains languishing in detention, in rolling 3-month stretches of solitary confinement. This of course prevented him from attending the July 9th hearing in the Covid-19 lawsuit, although that hearing nonetheless proceeded, with his colleague Peter Stassen representing the plaintiffs. Stassen moved to ask the Court whether plaintiffs' expert witnesses, as mentioned above, can testify under oath. The defendants categorically opposed this, claiming "they are not experts, let alone independent experts, and that the vaccines are safe and effective on the basis of scientific consensus." A ruling on the inclusion of expert witnesses was scheduled for November 27th, 2025.

Parallels can be drawn to the legal battles of outspoken German Covid-19 skeptic and lawyer, Reiner Fuellmich, whose Corona Investigative Committee podcasts and interviews were watched by millions globally during the pandemic. Under similar circumstances, and while also pursuing potentially high-profile Covid-related litigation, Fuellmich was arrested in Mexico in 2023, extradited to Germany, charged with embezzlement stemming from improper use of donations made to his Committee's non-profit organization, and sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment in April this year. Though unrelated to his conviction, Fuellmich has since 'been tied to' the Reichsbürger movement in Germany, about which the German security services have in recent years launched similarly dramatic 'dawn-raids' against 'sovereign citizens' who are ostensibly 'conspiring to overthrow the state'.

Latest Developments in the Dutch C-19 Lawsuit

On Monday (December 15th), Peter Stassen gave a press conference in front of the Leeuwarden courthouse, which can be found here, and in which he outlined that plaintiffs in the Covid-19 lawsuit have submitted the expert witnesses' testimonies into court proceedings independently, thereby evading the need for the court's permission for a hearing of the experts. The key points from his formal statement were as follows: 

• Announcement of the presentation of new, crucial evidence in two ongoing lawsuits against, among others, the State of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, Hugo de Jonge, Jaap van Dissel, Diederik Gommers, Albert Bourla (Pfizer), and Bill Gates.
• The cases concern damages caused by COVID-19 injections. The clients claim they were misled and would not have taken the shot without that deception.
• He places the case in a broader perspective: a global project called the "COVID-19 Great Reset," in which the truth has deliberately been suppressed (he quotes Romans 1:18). Stassen says the injections are crucial to this project of depopulation, fertility reduction, and total population control.
• New evidence (submitted on December 7)
• Video messages and written expert reports from five experts: Sasha Latypova, Michael Yeadon, Joseph Sansone, Katherine Watt, and Catherine Austin Fitts.
• Main conclusions from these reports: 

• The defendants (except Bill Gates, whose lawyer referred to the court's judgment) don't want to hear these experts and stick to their narrative of a "safe and effective vaccine."
• Stassen called on the press to expose the suppression of the truth.
• Both cases (proceedings on the merits in Leeuwarden and appeal against the refusal to hear expert witnesses in Amsterdam) will have oral hearings in 2026. He expects that the judges can no longer ignore this evidence.
• All case documents and videos are publicly available via www.rechtoprecht.nl and the foundation's YouTube channel; anyone may use them for their own proceedings.
• Financial support for the foundation is welcome, but even more important is that more people file similar cases. [In this light, this article about more and more people seeing through the lies and waking up comes to mind.]

The main points from Stassen's subsequent Q & A session with the press and members of the public: 

• No mandatory personal appearance of defendants; they can be represented by a lawyer.
• Bill Gates' lawyer was the only one who did not oppose hearing the experts (referred to the judge).
• The evidence has now been submitted independently (videos and reports), without needing court permission for an expert hearing.
• Stassen has been working alone since the incarceration of Arno van Kessel, but feels supported by the Right to Rights foundation and volunteers.
• Oral hearing in the main proceedings are likely between March and October 2026; further debate may be needed afterwards.
• He acknowledges that proceedings can take a long time but emphasizes that the fight for truth continues - both legally and "spiritually."
• On questions of media attention: the foundation is working on promotion (compilation videos, social media); the limited attention is attributed to control over the press as part of the "project."

In this article you can find the links to the video presentations of the five experts: Catherine Austin Fitts, Joseph Sansone, Katherine Watt, Mike Yeadon, and Sasha Latypova.

https://www.sott.net/article/503558-Despite-Lawyers-Detention-Under-Accusation-of-Terrorism-Landmark-Covid-19-Lawsuit-Pending-Before-District-Court-in-The-Netherlands

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