Court case against Bill Gates in the Netherlands goes ahead despite the jailing of the lead lawyer
Despite Bill Gates attempting to claim a Dutch court has no jurisdiction over him, the court case against him and 16 other defendants went ahead on Wednesday.
Two lawyers were representing 7 vaccine-injured claimants: Arno van Kessel and Peter Stassen. In June, the day after submitting documents for the initial proceedings, van Kessel was arrested and taken away blindfolded by a team of semi-military police. He is still being held in the Netherlands’ highest security prison. So, on Wednesday, Stassen represented the 7 claimants on his own.
Speaking after the hearing, Dutch independent media outlet Pinch of Soot said, “If van Kessel’s arrest was meant to intimidate Stassen, it did the opposite. As if he felt he had nothing left to lose, Stassen did all but mince his words, [he took the bull by] the horns and named the defendants’ crimes for what they are: biowarfare, genocide, mass murder, deceit and assault.”
The judge will issue his ruling in six weeks’ time.
Two Dutch lawyers, Arno van Kessel and Peter Stassen, filed a case representing 7 claimants who alleged harm from covid injections. The case against Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and 15 others was facilitated by the Stichting Recht Oprecht Foundation.
Proceedings officially began on 14 July 2023 when bailiffs travelled across the Netherlands to serve summons to the 17 defendants. The case was due to be first heard on 22 November 2023.
By 22 November 2023, the attorneys for all the defendants, except Gates, had entered their submissions. Gates arrogantly claimed that the court in the Netherlands had no jurisdiction over him. However, the court disagreed and said that all parties, including Gates, must appear in person at the court for an oral hearing on 18 September 2024.
Read more: Bill Gates tries to squirm out of court case but the Dutch aren’t having it
Gates did not appear in court as ordered. “Gates, who did not appear before the Leeuwarden District Court on 18 September, but was represented by a lawyer from PelsRijcken, stated that he believes that a Dutch judge is not competent to judge him because Gates is an American citizen,” independent researcher and reported Penny Maries said.
On 16 October 2024, the judge gave his ruling. “The Judge announced on 16 October that Gates was in the wrong. The Dutch Judge does have jurisdiction,” Maries said.
“The court ruled that Gates, who attempted to have the case dismissed or contest the court’s jurisdiction, was in the wrong. His legal challenge was dismissed, and as a result, he has been ordered to pay the legal fees of the plaintiffs,” The Gateway Pundit said. “A new hearing [is] set for 27 November 2024.”
At the beginning of June 2025, the North Netherlands District Court in Leeuwarden finally announced that the first substantive hearing of the case was scheduled for 9 July 2025.
On the morning of Wednesday, 11 June, there was a completely unexpected turn of events. Arno van Kessel was taken from his bed early in the morning with a massive show of force by a special intervention team. The lawyer, his daughter, and wife were even held at gunpoint for a moment. A day later, the police issued a statement via the website politie.nl linking van Kessel to “a criminal network.” According to a press release prepared by the prosecution, eight people were arrested that morning who “adhere to anti-institutional ideology and may have the intention to use violence.”
Remember a case brought against Bill Gates and the Dutch head of NATO in the Netherlands? The lawyer (Arno van Kessel) was arrested without charges and will be unable to present the case in court, Public Health Policy Journal, 1 July 2025
Dutch outlet De Andere Krant reported on 27 June that van Kessel is being kept in prison for another 90 days and so will not be able to present at the lawsuit against Gates, Mark Rutte and their co-defendants. “The Public Prosecution Service will continue to regard him as a ‘suspect in an investigation into a criminal network’, for the time being, without providing any evidence.”
“This means that the Leeuwarden lawyer will certainly not be at the public hearing on 9 July in the Leeuwarden District Court, where the first substantive hearing of the internationally controversial lawsuit against, among others, the State of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte and Bill Gates is scheduled,” De Andere Krant said.
Adding, “Many suspect that lawyer van Kessel has come too close to the truth in the corona file.”
On Tuesday, Jim Ferguson tweeted an article which began: “Tomorrow, in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, history may be made. A court case unlike any other is about to begin – one that could shatter the silence surrounding vaccine injuries, lift the veil on pandemic-era corruption, and place global elites under the microscope of justice.”
You need to be logged into Twitter (X) to be able to read the article above. For those who do not use Twitter, we have attached a copy of Ferguson’s article below.
Further reading: Process pieces Arno van Kessel full of dynamite, De Andere Krant, 5 July 2025
After the Hearing
On Wednesday, as scheduled, the hearing in the Leeuwarden District Court was held. Immediately after the hearing, Pinch of Soot interviewed businessman and entrepreneur Jim Ferguson, Dutch lawyer Meike Terhorst, Dutch GP Berber Pieksma and retired judge Barend van Tiel. The following is the description written beneath Pinch of Soot’s video on YouTube.
“If you reject this request, the same blood sticking to the defendants’ hands will stick to yours. This case deserves a public debate at the highest instance: the courtroom. I wish you much wisdom.”
With these words, Dutch lawyer Peter Stassen closed his particularly impressive plea and addressing the judge, during a remarkable preliminary hearing in the Leeuwarden District Court, on 9 July.
During the trial, Stassen had requested the court to hear witness statements from financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts, medical expert Mike Yeadon and Alexandra Latypova, a professional in healthcare business and entrepreneurship, among others, as requested by three clients, harmed by the covid-19 experimental gene-therapeutic jabs.
This request was contested by, in total, eight lawyers, representing: Bill Gates; the chief editors of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and Dutch TV-broadcaster NOS; Albert Bourla; and, a range of high-ranking Dutch officials and politicians, such as Mark Rutte, who were responsible for the handling of the corona crisis.
Stassen was supposed to present this case together with his colleague, Arno van Kessel. On the 11th of June, the day after having submitted documents to do with the initial proceedings, van Kessel was arrested and taken away blindfolded by a team of semi-military police and is being kept in the Netherlands’ highest secured prison, far away from his family, at least for another three months. The actual charge is unknown – most likely because the State Prosecution is still trying to find a criminal act.
If van Kessel’s arrest was meant to intimidate Stassen, it did the opposite. As if he felt he had nothing left to lose, Stassen did all but mince his words, [he took the bull by] the horns and named the defendants’ crimes for what they are: biowarfare, genocide, mass murder, deceit and assault.
Although the team of lawyers for the defendants are esteemed within the judiciary, Stassen dwarfed their presentations single-handedly. In addition, the defendants’ framing of the suggested witnesses as “conspiracy theorists” and “unqualified” had lost all its magic on an audience tired of five years of lies, abuse of trust, physical harm and excess deaths.
“None of the defendants’ lawyers have responded to the content of my plea. They foolishly repeat the official narrative – which is the prerequisite for being chosen as executors by the defendants. The Dutch State’s lawyer even has the nerve to repeat ‘safe and effective’ here again, while facts and data have long since overtaken the official narrative,” Stassen concluded.
The judgement will follow in six weeks’ time, so the 20th of August, at the latest.
[Note: Some of the video below is in Dutch. If you watch the video on YouTube, you can turn on the subtitles function to read the English translation.]
If the video above is removed from YouTube, you can watch it on Rumble HERE and find some additional links on Potkaars’ website HERE.
Earlier today, the day after the court hearing, Ferguson posted a video report on Twitter. “This is no ordinary court case,” he said. “This is now gaining international attention.”
Featured image: Arno van Kessel (left). Source: De Andre Krant. Bill Gates (right). Source: Radio France
