# Source note — Free Reiner Fuellmich Reel: Paul Craig Roberts’ statement, the German conviction record, and the dispute over due process

- Captured: 2026-08-21
- Original user-provided URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19M4XzvyYH/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Resolved Reel ID: `3282787438594938`
- Facebook source/uploader metadata: Free Reiner - The Film
- Extracted media: `free-reiner-paul-craig-roberts-facebook-reel.mp4`
- Machine transcript: `transcript-faster-whisper-small.txt` — verify before quoting.

## Reel/source trail

The Facebook caption says Philippe Carillo and the poster published a September 2025 video compilation in which 41 VIPs called for the immediate release of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, and says Paul Craig Roberts was one of them. It links to the English YouTube compilation `KAX_gcl-X6Q` and to the English trailer `y3AmnOFOr_Q`, with additional language versions and a GoFundMe.

## What the extracted Reel says

The machine transcript identifies the speaker as Paul Craig Roberts, formerly Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. The speaker says he supports Reiner Fuellmich and alleges that Fuellmich was kidnapped by the German government, convicted on false embezzlement charges in a corrupt court, prevented from presenting exculpatory evidence, and blocked from developing litigation against governments/pharmaceutical companies over COVID and vaccines.

## Court/reporting context found

- Search and captured media-source records say Fuellmich was convicted/sentenced by a Göttingen court in April 2025 in an embezzlement/breach-of-trust case linked to Corona Investigative Committee funds/donations.
- Bluewin/t-online-style coverage describes a conviction and sentence for embezzlement/Untreue; supporter sources dispute the process and characterize the case as political persecution.
- VICE reported in 2023 that Fuellmich was arrested after being deported from Mexico in connection with alleged embezzlement; supporter sources use terms such as “kidnapping” or “abduction.”

## Editorial boundary

This PBC source-check does not adjudicate the German criminal case. It preserves the Reel and separates: (1) what Paul Craig Roberts alleges, (2) what campaign/advocacy sources say, and (3) what available media/search records say about the conviction/sentence/arrest.