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Filing
24 Jun 2025

C/17/199273 · Request for provisional evidence, Leeuwarden

Defendants oppose the request to hear the experts

State et al. (Pels Rijcken), Bourla (De Brauw), Kant (Ekker); Gates (neutral)

Defence filing · the court has not ruled on these claims

In 30 seconds

The defendants' written answers to the three applicants' evidence request. The State led with a detailed defence; Bourla and Kant joined it, and Gates left the decision to the court.

Cheat sheet

  1. The State argues provisional evidence cannot be sought while a related case is already running, so the request is inadmissible.
  2. The State says the applicants share lawyers and a foundation with the main claimants and are trying to get around the law.
  3. The State argues the five people are not independent experts and their views are already public.
  4. The State says questions on US law, war crimes and the applicants' biological-weapon argument are legal questions for the judge, not experts.
  5. Bourla adds that Yeadon left Pfizer in 2011, never worked in vaccines, and made public claims Bourla calls false.
  6. Kant adopted the State's and Bourla's positions; Gates said he would neither support nor oppose the request.

Key passages · underlined

The persons named by the applicants cannot be regarded as experts, and certainly not as independent and impartial experts.
Why it matters The State's core attack on the experts' standing.Page 3 · Bailiwick News copy
It therefore appears that the request by the applicants for provisional evidence is in fact intended to gather evidence for the ongoing proceedings of et al., and that this is an attempt to circumvent the statutory restriction of Article 196 paragraph 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure
Why it matters The procedural argument the court later accepted when it refused the request.Page 5 · Bailiwick News copy
Yeadon worked at Pfizer from 1995-2011. So he hasn't been employed by Pfizer for over 13 years. For that reason alone, it can't be that Yeadon was involved in the development of Comirnaty, which started in 2020.
Why it matters Bourla's specific challenge to the expert presented as a former Pfizer vice president.Page 4 · Bailiwick News copy
Mr. Gates chooses to defer to the judgment of your court with regard to the application. He will therefore not file a statement of defense and we will not use any pleadings at the hearing.
Why it matters Gates alone took a neutral stance; his lawyer later stressed this is not support for the request.Page 1 · Bailiwick News copy

Every defendant denies the claims, and the court has not ruled on them. Allegations are the claimants' pleaded positions, quoted as theirs. This is analysis and commentary, not legal advice. Interest of Justice is not a party to the case.

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