A documentary in production · Free Reiner
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Filmmakers Philippe Carillo and Seba Terribilini are making a documentary about Reiner Fuellmich, the German lawyer who co-founded the Corona Investigative Committee and has been in German custody since October 2023. The trailer is out in eight languages. The film still needs funding to be finished.
CHF 28,146 raised of CHF 80,000 · 454 donations · GoFundMe, as of October 15, 2026
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The campaign is raising CHF 80,000 to complete the documentary, take it to festivals, premiere it in Berlin and distribute it. The organizers say any surplus will go to Reiner and his wife, Inka.
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Four due-process questions for the State Department to raise with Germany: how he was brought from Mexico, why part of his detention was not credited, his conditions, and parole.
Send the four questions →In the filmmakers’ words
“When exposing lies becomes a crime.”
“At the heart of it all lies a simple but profound question: what happens when those who speak out are silenced?”
— Seba Terribilini and Philippe Carillo, announcing the trailer
The film is the filmmakers’ work and tells the story as they see it, including claims Restore the First does not make itself. Our own account of the case sticks to the record, and it is below.
Reiner Fuellmich, before his arrest in October 2023. Photo supplied to Restore the First.
What the record shows
The conviction is final. The questions are not.
Reiner Fuellmich is a German trial lawyer. In 2020 he co-founded the Corona Investigative Committee, which gathered testimony from doctors, scientists and lawyers challenging official pandemic policy. To many people around the world he became a voice against lockdowns and vaccine mandates. He has been in German custody since October 2023.
- No extradition hearing. In October 2023 he was detained in Tijuana and deported to Germany, not extradited through a Mexican court. Emails quoted in his own criminal complaint describe officials planning to use a consular appointment to have him detained.
- Detention not credited. A German court withheld credit for five months of his pretrial detention, partly because of how he used his own trial to speak.
- Past the two-thirds mark. On our arithmetic he has passed two-thirds of his sentence, when German law allows a court to grant parole.
- Moved without notice. On October 8, 2026 he was transferred to Lingen prison. A human rights complaint filed October 12 says he was put in a damp, moldy basement cell. We report that as the complaint’s account.
He was convicted of breach of trust over donations to the Corona Committee foundation, and Germany’s Federal Court of Justice has made that final. We take no position on the verdict. We ask how it was reached and how he is held.
Read the full record, with sources →The thread
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🚨Kidnapped? Tortured?
— Sayer Ji (@sayerjigmi) October 15, 2026
Who is Reiner Fuellmich, and what is happening to him?
What the record shows, what a new complaint says, and the film being made about him. 🧵👇 pic.x.com/ASVSZyvcC1
Still from the 2022 broadcast, via Seba Terribilini’s Substack. Participants included lawyers from France, New Zealand, Germany, the United States, Italy, Australia, India, South Africa and Canada, and a judge from Portugal.
Feature · From the archive
The Court of Public Opinion, 2022.
From February 5 to June 9, 2022, Fuellmich and a group of lawyers from about ten countries, joined by a judge, held a public proceeding modeled on a grand jury. It was not a court and had no legal force. Over eight sessions it presented witness testimony on PCR testing, the injections, the economic damage of lockdowns, and propaganda, in what he called “the biggest crime against humanity ever perpetrated.”
- Feb 5Opening statements
- Feb 12Historical background
- Feb 13PCR tests
- Feb 19Injections & psychological warfare
- Feb 20Economic & financial destruction
- Feb 26Eugenics & outlook
- May 19Psychology & propaganda
- Jun 9Closing arguments
Session titles are the organizers’ own. Seba Terribilini’s post lists every participant and witness.
Watch on Seba Terribilini’s Substack ↗Featured in the film
Who speaks in Free Reiner.
The filmmakers are announcing contributors one by one on Seba Terribilini’s Substack. So far:
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Production updates from the filmmakers.
The fundraiser is organized by Seba Terribilini on GoFundMe. Restore the First does not receive, hold or direct any of the money; donations go through GoFundMe to the organizer. Fundraising figures are copied from the campaign page and updated by hand. Views expressed in the film and its promotion are the filmmakers’ own.