Freddy Heineken
Freddy
Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer
were kidnapped on 9 November 1983 at 18:56 in front
of Heineken's office at the Weteringplantsoen (nl) in Amsterdam.
They were imprisoned in a Quonset hut, belonging to Boellaards wood manufacturing company, at business
park De Heining in
Westpoort, in the western part of the Amsterdam harbor area.
The shed where Heineken and Doderer were being held.
The preparation required a lot of thought, time and
money. The four friends invested 100,000 dutch guilders
to pay for
what they needed. Jan Boellaard possessed a 140 feet Romney Shed in
the western
harbor area of Amsterdam.
They were imprisoned in a Quonset hut, belonging to Boellaards wood manufacturing company, at business
park De Heining in
Westpoort, in the western part of the Amsterdam harbor area.
They were imprisoned in a Quonset hut, belonging to Boellaards wood manufacturing company, at business
park De Heining in
Westpoort, in the western part of the Amsterdam harbor area.
After an anonymous tip a SWAT team invaded the shed
in the harbor area of Amsterdam on November 30th.
At first they
thought that they were misled but when the police found out that there
was more behind the
wall, they eventually found the secret door.
Heineken and Doderer were finally freed after 3 weeks of
captivity.
According to the police, three of the five kidnappers were named in
the tip.
The police never revealed any further information.
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.
They built two cells behind a wall with a secret door. From the
workshop wich was located in the shed, you
could not see the cells and nobody noticed that the room was now
twelve feet shorter than before.
During the kidnapping, when Heineken and Doderer were locked in these cells, people walked in and
out
the workplace without noticing anything unusual.
