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Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken

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detectives acting in cooperation with F'rench police. The spokesman said the apartment house had been under observation for several days. Heineken, 60, and his chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, were kidnapped last Nov. 9 and freed three weeks later by police who found them chained inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam. A ransom reported to be $ 10 million to $ 11.6 million was paid, but most of it has been recovered.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -Police in Paris arrested two leading suspects in the kidnapping of brewery chairman Alfred Heineken, Dutch police said. Police spokesman Bernard Scholten said Cor van Hout, 26, and Wim Holleeder, 25, both of Amsterdam, were picked up at an apartment house in Paris by two Dutch
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AMSTERDAM Police in Paris today arrested two leading suspects in the kidnapping of brewery chairman Alfred Heineken, Dutch police said. Police spokesman Bernard Scholten said Cor van 1 lout, 26, and Wim I lolleeder, 25, both of Amsterdam, were picked up at an apartment house in Paris by two Dutch
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area. The hut was prepared in advance by the creation of a double wall on one end, with two soundproof cells with a hidden door. This made the 42-meter long hut shorter on the inside by 4 meters, which went unnoticed. Outside working hours, the kidnappers provided for their prisoners, who were
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In 2003, Meijer stopped resisting his extradition to the Netherlands, and was transferred to a Dutch prison to serve the last part of his term. The kidnapping and subsequent trials and extraditions drew national attention and received broad media coverage. Several books were published on the
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tethered to the wall with chains. The payment of the ransom was the highest ever paid for a kidnap victim at the time: 11 million dollars. The kidnappers fled before releasing the hostages, but, after a "lucky lead", the police discovered the hostages alive.
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requesting that the film be forbidden. Jan Boellaard, Frans Meijer and Martin Erkamps also demanded that IDTV should not show the film, as it would not be accurate enough. The injunction and requests were unsuccessful.
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had been preparing the kidnapping for two years. Martin Erkamps was later involved. Several attempts to kidnap Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer at Heineken's home in
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failed when Heineken and Doderer did not show up. Subsequently, they were kidnapped on 9 November 1983 at 18:56 in front of Heineken's office at the
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and were at first placed under house arrest in a hotel on 6 December 1985, before being transferred on 13 February 1986 first to
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followed the events with several reports and pictures. In 2010, these reports were bundled and published in the book
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After the release of the hostages on 30 November, Van Hout and Holleeder managed to escape. They both fled to
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before being brought to a French prison. They were finally extradited to the Netherlands on 31 October 1986.
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by Maarten Treurniet had its premiere. It was written by Maarten Treurniet and Kees van Beijnum. It stars
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Shortly after his release Van Hout was jailed once again, this time for four years, for his role in a
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kidnapping and two movies were made. Several of the kidnappers later became well-known figures in
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Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first
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After two earlier failed attempts, Van Hout was assassinated on 24 January 2003 in
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and one of the richest people in the Netherlands, and his driver Ab Doderer, were
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premiered in the Netherlands on 8 January 2015. It is written by
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How a Dutch Gangster was Betrayed by His Sister | The Backstory
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as Jan Boellaard. Kidnapper Willem Holleeder filed a
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detectives acting in cooperation with French police.
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Kidnapping Freddy Heineken

Heineken
Freddy Heineken
chairman
board of directors
CEO
brewing company
Heineken International
kidnapped
Amsterdam
ransom
Dutch guilders
Cor van Hout
Willem Holleeder
prison
on the run
extradition
house arrest
Paraguay
Peter R. de Vries
Dutch organized crime
drug smuggling
Amstelveen
mafia
Friesian horses

Cor van Hout
Willem Holleeder
Cor van Hout

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