The Public Prosecution Service (OM) suspects that the eight men arrested in June in an investigation into sovereign citizens intended to carry out a terrorist attack on government institutions or officials around the NATO summit in The Hague. “The aim was to violently resist the current system and to disrupt or destroy existing structures,” authorities said.
Five men are on trial for allegedly forming a criminal network that planned to commit terrorist acts between March 1, 2022, and June 11, 2025, in the Leeuwarden court. Three others are not in custody but remain suspects.
NOTE : title adjusted via [brackets] for context
Oh wow I thought that was a US thing
We have them in Germany as well.
For more info on this extremist group “Sovereign Citizens”, I found this ICCT report
Their beliefs in an evil elite are often centred around the notion that man-made, government mandated laws and statutes are ways to oppress ‘the people’ and strip them of their individual rights and sovereignty.
The overall number of sovereign citizens has sharply increased over the last few years, with estimates by Dutch intelligence and security services putting that figure at several tens of thousands.
That’s many more than I would have assumed.
