Biography
Frits was a Dutch Catholic Worker from Amsterdam. In summer 2018 he entered Büchel Air Base, Germany with 17 others to protest U.S. nuclear weapons deployment. He refused to pay the resulting court fine and served a 30-day sentence at Wittlich Prison in Germany beginning July 4, 2022.
The Onkruit Vergaat Niet newsletter of September 6, 2022 describes confinement from July 4 through and including August 2, 2022. Other first-person reporting confirms thirty days served but does not give an executed discharge date. The currently stored August 3 release day is therefore not independently confirmed by these reports; no replacement day has been inferred from sentence arithmetic. Actual release remains a point for checking against a discharge record.
The Nuclear Resister individually names Frits ter Kuile among eleven people detained on August 14, 2023 after blocking the construction gate at Büchel air base in Germany, opposing U.S. nuclear bombs. Police took their identification, imposed a one-day ban and bar order, transported them in police vans and released them in Müllenbach. The one-day ban is not a prison sentence; no individual criminal charge, jail admission or completed confinement duration is established. Contemporary Nuclear Resister action report.
The Nuclear Resister individually names Frits ter Kuile among sixteen people arrested on August 9, 2023 while digging beneath the fence at Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands, where U.S. nuclear weapons are stockpiled. Police detained participants one by one and questioned them at a local police station before later release. No individual statutory charge, jail admission or completed confinement duration is established. Contemporary Nuclear Resister action report.
The July 28, 2021 Nuclear Resister report identifies Frits ter Kuile among three people arrested on July 19 while digging outside the Büchel air base fence in protest against U.S. nuclear weapons stationed there. It says they were taken to the Cochem police station and released without charges; Brian Terrell’s accompanying account describes the three as soon released. The exact physical release day and a jail admission are not established here, and no numerical custody duration is assigned.
Contemporary action report and accompanying first-person account.
