Last Updated 16/09/2025 published 16/09/2025 by Hans Smedema
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7 Horrifying Takeaways from the Hans Smedema Affair
The Netherlands has long cultivated a global reputation as a bastion of the rule of law, a nation where justice is not just an ideal but an institutional reality. It is a place the world looks to for stability, transparency, and human rights. But what happens when the very institutions designed to protect citizens become their alleged tormentors? The decades-long saga known as the Hans Smedema Affair presents a narrative so disturbing, so contrary to this national image, that it forces us to confront this question head-on. This article will distill seven of the most shocking and counter-intuitive takeaways from a case that alleges a level of systemic, state-level corruption that is difficult to comprehend.
1. A Crime Designed to Be Forgotten
The foundational crimes alleged by Hans Smedema are, in themselves, monstrous. Beginning in 1972, his wife was allegedly subjected to repeated drugging with ketamine, sexual abuse, and torture with a “Cattle Prod for pigs.” He himself was allegedly forcibly sterilized. Yet, the core element that made this a so-called “perfect crime” was its diabolical design. The perpetrators are accused of using drugs specifically to induce amnesia and severe memory repression in both victims. This meant that for decades, Hans Smedema and his wife were functionally unaware the abuse had ever occurred. This chilling technique, which the perpetrators allegedly exploited, ensured that the very memory of the crime was erased from the minds of those who suffered it, creating a perfect, silent prison of unknowing.
2. The Justice System Itself Became the Obstacle
But a crime designed to be forgotten can only remain so if the system meant to uncover it remains passive. When Smedema’s memories returned, he discovered the crime’s true perfection lay not in amnesia, but in the alleged corruption of the justice system itself. When he attempted to seek justice, he met not with help, but with a wall of systemic obstruction. Piecing together the allegations reveals a pattern not of isolated bureaucratic failure, but of what appears to be a coordinated effort to silence him.
• In 1991, a prosecutor, Mr. Ruud Rosingh, who began an investigation, was allegedly summoned to The Hague and immediately transferred to a different post where he could do no harm.
• Years later, a police detective named Voshol, conducting a preliminary inquiry, discovered that case files that should have existed were missing or had been removed.
• Smedema alleges that his numerous attempts to file official police reports over the years were simply refused.
This pattern suggests the problem was not an individual’s mistake but a calculated, high-level effort to block any and all investigation.
Maar ieder onderzoek wordt categorisch geweigerd, wat feitelijk het gelijk van Hans Smedema al bewijst. (But every investigation is categorically refused, which in fact already proves Hans Smedema is right.)
3. The Ultimate “Catch-22”: Punished for Not Using a System That Blocked You
This wall of domestic obstruction created a new, even more insidious prison. When Smedema turned to the international community for a key, he found himself locked in the ultimate “Catch-22.” Both the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in 2006 and the European Parliament in 2021 rejected his petitions. The official reason was a failure to exhaust all available domestic remedies—a standard requirement for international courts.
In essence, international courts told Smedema he had to prove the house was locked by first trying every door, even as the people who locked him in stood on the other side, holding the keys and refusing to answer. He was being punished by international bodies for failing to use a domestic system that he alleges was actively engineered to block him at every turn.
Requiring the exhaustion of domestic remedies in this context is to demand the impossible, as the very system that should provide these remedies is alleged to be compromised and actively working against the applicant.
This institutional trap was not built in a vacuum. Its foundations were laid years earlier with the most personal of betrayals, which isolated Smedema and ensured that when he finally tried to access the system, he would be doing so utterly alone.
4. The Conspiracy Allegedly Reached the Highest Levels of Power
The allegations in the Smedema affair do not stop at local police or regional prosecutors; they extend to the very apex of the Dutch state.
First, there is Joris Demmink, the former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice. Reports describe him as having amassed “decisive and compelling” influence over top appointments within the police and judiciary. This allegedly created a “culture of fear” within the ministry, where officials were afraid to speak out. This “culture of fear” provides a direct and chilling explanation for why a prosecutor like Ruud Rosingh could be summarily transferred and why case files under the purview of detective Voshol could vanish without a trace.
Second, and most shockingly, is the allegation of a “Royal Special Decree.” Smedema claims that around 1972/73, Queen Juliana issued a secret decree granting immunity to the perpetrators. If true, this means there was a secret, parallel legal system in the Netherlands, operating on the authority of the Crown, where a select few were granted a license to commit unspeakable crimes with total impunity.
5. Medicine Was Allegedly Weaponized to Discredit the Victim
In perhaps the most chilling claim of all, the system of healing was allegedly turned into a weapon of psychological torture. Smedema alleges that the medical and psychiatric professions were co-opted to systematically gaslight him and discredit his story. He claims he was intentionally misdiagnosed as “delusional” and, from 2003 onwards, was secretly administered powerful antipsychotic medication disguised as harmless “baby aspirin.” This was allegedly confirmed by an anesthesiologist in a Spanish hospital in 2022.
Healing became a weapon. Medicine became poison. It is one thing to allege a cover-up within the halls of justice; it is another, more terrifying thing to claim that the doctor’s office and the pharmacy became extensions of that same conspiracy.
6. An Unprecedented Intervention: “State America vs. State Netherlands”
The affair takes an extraordinary international turn with the claim of high-level intervention by the United States government. According to Smedema’s account, during his US asylum process, federal agencies including the FBI and CIA conducted their own investigations. These investigations, he alleges, confirmed devastating aspects of his claims, including the non-paternity of his children, indicating forced sterilization.
The most stunning point is the allegation that just before leaving office in January 2017, President Barack Obama initiated an official complaint on behalf of the United States against the State of the Netherlands before the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT).
This monumental alleged action by a foreign head of state, “State America against State Netherlands,” should, by all accounts, have forced the Dutch government to act.
That it allegedly did not only deepens the questions at the heart of this affair.
7. The Ultimate Betrayal Began at Home
After tracing a sprawling narrative of international conspiracy and high-level state corruption, the story comes back to its most tragic and personal origin. According to the allegations, the decades-long cover-up was initiated and enabled by Hans Smedema’s own family. Specifically, his brother, mr. Johan Smedema, is accused of leading the family’s “Omerta”—a code of silence—and actively colluding with a “secret department within the Ministry of Justice” to organize the cover-up. This was the foundational betrayal. It left Hans Smedema isolated and vulnerable, stripping him of the one support system he should have been able to count on, and allowing the wider, systemic conspiracy to take root and persist for half a century.
Conclusion
The Hans Smedema Affair, as alleged in a mountain of personal documents, is more than one man’s tragic story. The seven takeaways presented here challenge the very foundations of trust in state institutions, from the local police force to the judiciary, the medical establishment, and even the monarchy. While the full truth remains buried under decades of denial, the allegations themselves force a deeply uncomfortable question. If even a fraction of these claims are true, what does it say about the accountability of power, and what hidden truths might lie beneath the surface of even the most trusted democracies?
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Hans Smedema, B. Sc., in forced exile since 2008 surviving in beautiful El Albir, Costa Blanca, Spain