Conspiracy theorist Micha Kat will not be released from jail for the time being.

Kat was arrested in Northern Ireland in the middle of last year, and unsuccessfully contested his extradition to the Netherlands. He now wants to be allowed to leave his jail cell, but the court said there were enough serious objections to detain Kat, now 59 years old, at least until the next preliminary hearing in February. The case should be dealt with substantively with a trial at the end of March.

Kat, a former journalist, is suspected of incitement against the judiciary, incitement against the municipality of Bodegraven, calling on people to kidnap and threaten the RIVM director Jaap van Dissel, and incitement against the newspaper AD, among other crimes.

Kat suspects that the Public Prosecution Service (OM) is targeting him, he told the judge several times during the hearing. He said he fears his voice has been drowned out, and that the “hysteria” of the OM has led to cases being manufactured against him.

Via the online platform Red Pill Journal, Kat, together with fellow conspiracy theorists Wouter Raatgever and Joost Knevel, spread unsubstantiated stories about networks of alleged satanic pedophiles and claims of ritualistic child murders in Bodegraven.

Raatgever and Knevel have already been convicted for their roles.

https://nltimes.nl/2022/12/13/conspiracy-theorist-micha-kat-remain-pre-trial-detention-now