Micha K. (59), relapsing conspiracy theorist, already announced his return to the homeland last week. “The Irish feast is over,” it said in a spoken message. It was a message like the one he distributed almost daily from his prison cell in Belfast, Northern Ireland, via artist Rob Scholte’s website.
After more than a year and a half of legal tug-of-war, the Northern Irish court has finally agreed to the surrender of K. requested by the Public Prosecution Service in The Hague. here i come”, said K. “Hang up the flag, but the upside-down flag.”
On Wednesday K. was picked up in Belfast by the Marechaussee and flown to the Netherlands. He will be questioned by the police on Thursday and brought before the examining magistrate on Friday. The Public Prosecution Service wants to prosecute him for six cases of sedition.
These include incitement to violence against the judiciary, incitement to kidnapping and violence against RIVM director Jaap van Dissel, and incitement to violence against the AD. Even though K. has been in extradition detention for more than a year, given the seriousness of the charges, it is likely that the detention will be continued in the Netherlands.
A protracted legal battle awaits the self-proclaimed whistleblower. He is a suspect in a major criminal case and he still has six months to serve for previous threats and harassment. The ex-teacher of classical languages and former employee at NRC and The Telegraph spent the past 20 years spreading gory, exotic conspiracies through social media. On Whistleblower Online he wrote about a “pedophile network” of magistrates and a single top official. Without providing evidence, K. stated that the network members were guilty of “satanic child robbery”: they ate babies.
Financial support
For a long time Micha K. could count on financial support from father Jan and son Peter Poot of the Chipshol company. These project developers and owners of a lot of land around Schiphol Airport felt they were being neglected by what they saw as corrupt judges. K. was brought in to retaliate against a monthly payment via the Internet by taunting officials who allegedly harassed Chipshol. K. was regularly convicted. Not only for slander and libel, but also for making false bomb threats to the Ministry of Justice and the state attorney. All fines, periodic penalty payments and restraining orders were not able to stop K. from continuing to act unlawfully.
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In 2016, K. in de Volkskrant called “the uncrowned king of the madhouse.” He didn’t like that. A lawsuit followed to demand rectification. K. lost that lawsuit. According to the court, it is not entirely incomprehensible that he is not taken seriously as a conspiracy theorist. It is because of the “far-reaching and baseless accusations that K. has been bringing to the public’s attention in no uncertain terms for years.”
Three other men
K. is now on trial for, among other things, inciting violence against Bodegraven via the Red Pill Journal. It told how high-ranking people were guilty of murdering children in Bodegraven in the 1980s. RIVM director Van Dissel is said to be involved in the ‘satanic ritual infanticides’. The local doctor is also said to have abused boys.
There is no evidence for these stories. Still, after broadcasts, the village cemetery was visited by dozens of conspiracy theorists, who believed that victims of child abuse are buried there. The town hall was defaced, security guards were hired.
Three other men who made the bulletin with K. that was broadcast via social media – Wouter R. (54), Joost K. (44) and Hans M. (57) – were convicted two months ago for sedition, threats and defamation. According to public prosecutor Wieger Veldhuis, they were guilty of “an orgy of suspicions”. In broadcasts, the suspects accused Van Dissel and the doctor without evidence of being part of “a satanic pedophile network that gains power through genocide of people, abuse of young children and drinking their blood,” according to the court.
Co-defendants of K. – Wouter and Joost – were given unconditional prison sentences of 18 and 11 months. K. must count on a heavier sentence, because he also threatened judges and journalists. That is aggravating. On social media, K. shouted at the building of the AD filled with graffiti. ADjournalists had to be ‘destroyed’. Judges also declared K. to “free targets”. Handle them or they’ll cut babies to pieces, said K.
The Hague court that handles the criminal case, K. this year in a civil case already liable for damages of 215,000 euros to the municipality of Bodegraven, as compensation for all the nuisance caused by the conspiracy thinkers in Bodegraven.