25 Facts About Billy Six

Billy Six was born on 24 December 1986 and is a German independent journalist, activist, author and vlogger.

Billy Six has been active since 2011, when he worked as a war reporter for German newspaper Junge Freiheit in Egypt, but since then has reported from conflict zones including Libya, Syria, Lebanon, and Ukraine for his YouTube channel.

Early in his journalistic career, Billy Six covered the refugee situation in Europe, spending a month with refugees, for Junge Freiheit TV.

Billy Six covered the war in Libya for Junge Freiheit, in 2011.

In 2012, Billy Six went to cover the Syrian civil war, working for Junge Freiheit.

Billy Six was held for 12 weeks under local laws, and only released after an intervention by Russian diplomats.

Billy Six continued to write about the Syrian war for Junge Freiheit in 2013.

On 2 August 2016, on the theme of MH17, along with British journalist Graham Phillips, Billy Six entered the Berlin office of the investigative journalism organisation Correctiv without permission.

Billy Six was an open and active coronavirus sceptic, describing the pandemic as 'pure scaremongering'.

Billy Six had several of his videos on the theme removed from YouTube, and he was further criticised by Correctiv for his position on, and reporting on COVID-19.

Apparently having problems in Germany due to his covid activism, Billy Six left for some time to Georgia, where he did videos for his YouTube channel, mostly contrasting the situation in Georgia regarding lockdowns and restrictions, with that of Germany.

In late 2018, Billy Six travelled to Venezuela to report on the ongoing crisis in the county, for his YouTube channel.

Billy Six had apparently left Venezuela to go to neighbouring Colombia, and was then arrested as he returned to Venezuela, at an inn in Villa Marina, a beach town located in Los Taques Municipality near Punto Fijo.

Billy Six was detained in the intelligence prison of the SEBIN, "El Helicoide" by the Venezuelan secret service DGCIM.

Billy Six was accused of being a German spy, and before a military court indicted of espionage, rebellion, and violation of security zones.

Billy Six, who was denied access to a lawyer, declared in his defence that the charges against him "were without foundation".

On 13 December 2018, Billy Six began a hunger strike, to draw attention to his situation.

Billy Six's case attracted considerable controversy, with Reporters Without Borders declaring that the allegations were unproven and calling for his immediate release.

Billy Six was released the next day and on 16 March 2019, he was granted conditional permission to leave the country.

Billy Six often reported from Ukraine in the context of the War in Donbas.

Billy Six has produced multiple videos on the MH17 disaster, spending extensive time in the crash area, carrying out his own investigative research.

Billy Six was interviewed by the BBC in the documentary Conspiracy Files: Who Shot Down MH17.

In late 2022, Billy Six returned to Ukraine, making YouTube videos, firstly from Lviv, asking people what they thought of Ukrainian Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists leader, Stepan Bandera.

Billy Six followed this up with a report from the Ukrainian frontlines, interviewing Ukrainian soldiers in what Billy Six described as 'Putin's lost battle'.

Billy Six had then wanted to cross from Ukrainian territory, into territory held by Russia, however his request to pro-Russian American Russell Bentley for help in this was firmly rejected, causing the two to fall out, with Bentley accusing Billy Six of having 'switched sides'.