Banks close accounts of man who exposed Ursula von der Leyen’s secret Pfizer texts: coincidence or political “debanking”?

Frédéric Baldan, a previous lobbyist for the EU and author of Ursula Gates, reported that ALL of his accounts (personal, business, even his five-year-old son’s savings account at the latter) with ING and Nagelmackers Bank in Belgium had been closed with no explanation. Baldan said he received a polite letter from each bank asking for the return of his cards.

https://x.com/BaldanFrederic/status/1982746342121144606

Baldan is the individual who filed a complaint against the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, for refusing to produce text messages exchanged with the CEO of Pfizer during COVID vaccine negotiations. Earlier in 2023, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled the European Commission was acting unlawfully by failing to disclose those messages. So now, a few months after the ruling, the individual whose text messages were ordered to be released is cut off, financially.

Baldan calls the experience "political debanking" since it appears the pressure is coming from "above", to stifle a critic. Baldan's case matches other cases in the UK and Canada where accounts were frozen for ideological similarity. Is this a final example of financial censorship in the background of the EU? Is this just his bad luck disguised as political persecution? When banks start determining individuals' participation in the economy, what happens to democracy itself?