Judges in Amsterdam-Osdorp in 2005 on the site where on November 2 drug and real estate dealer Cees Houtman was assassinated for his villa, in front of his wife and daughter. The murder is one of the liquidations where the Passage Process about. Photo ANP / Koen van Weel
In liquidation case, nicknamed the Passage process, will today appeal further. The condemned ‘murder broker’ Fred R. is key witness in this case about killings in the underworld, as it turned out last Friday. This also Willem Holleeder again as subject. The new kroongetuige complicates the already very long-term process, so say some lawyers of suspects. Today, they can react to the deal with Justice Fred R. ditch. Who is he? As a footballer lacked him sport mentality.
By Jan Meeus and Enzo Steenbergen
The man in the middle. That’s Fred R., a big muscular former footballer from Hilversum. For years he was the fulcrum in a violent battle between criminals in the underworld. The big names from the environment were looking at him like she wanted to clean up. Someone out of the way He arranged the shooters, supplied them with weapons, cars to participate flights and arranged the money afterwards. His nickname: the murder. Broker
Fred R. However switched half. The spindle in the criminal world has betrayed his clients. Last Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that Fred R. series of misrepresentation against the people he marched for years. The killing agent has become witness. With the testimony of Fred R. Justice hopes to solve a series of murders since the end of the last century have been committed. Environment in the Amsterdam
Fred R. knows the clients and the shooters
key witness Fred R. hopes to gather sufficient evidence, the Prosecution to prosecute. clients of murders in the underworld Fred R. after Peter la S. Second star witness in this longstanding criminal file. The information provided Fred R., pointing to three main suspects: Dino S., Ali A. and Willem Holleeder. The first two have been identified as suspects. Holleeder not. The use of key witnesses in the Netherlands is rare. A key witness gets reduced sentence of up to half of the required punishment. It is unprecedented that justice a key witness only boosts higher
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This series of murders is the subject of a long-running criminal case:. Passage process, also known as the liquidation case called . In that case, eleven defendants were convicted of involvement in seven murders and several attempted murders. Fred R. got 30 years in prison, of which he would have to sit there. Least 20 At a higher level, the Prosecution was less successful: his alleged clients all escaped the dance. While Willem Holleeder, one of his alleged clients, on his scooter by Amsterdam-Zuid whirred as if nothing had happened, Fred R. was in a maximum security prison until 2026
What do you do – as a man. In the middle?
Fred R. has made his choice. Friday it was announced that he made against Holleeder. Incriminating statements Last week investigating judge of Merwijk a new preliminary investigation into Holleeder started. ‘The Nose’ is suspected of having ordered the murder of two other men who ever clicked on him to the police command: Cees Houtman and Thomas van der Bijl.
The third case concerns the murder of Cor van Hout, who Holleeder mid eighties fleeing hit after the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken. An interesting detail: Van Hout was until his death married to Sonja Holleeder, the sister of William. The lawyer Willem Holleeder will not comment on these allegations
Holleeder and Van Hout in 1983 after fleeing to France:.
Peter Plasman, until recently the lawyer Fred R., said in 2008, though at a hearing that the OM pressure was applied to his client. “Fred R. is one of the dominoes that have to fall in order to come out. At those big boys If he is silent he is convicted and when he talks he has the rest of his life to fear the consequences. “Off the agreement that the prosecution announced Friday, shows that Fred R. has already spoken about a role as a key witness in 2007. Those negotiations then bounced off.
That was his conviction for 30 years imprisonment. That probably make him tilt. A silent Fred R. would have been. Until at least 2026 fixed Now dawns the free life in the summer of 2016 Dan is two-thirds of fifteen years in prison like he negotiated for his own criminal activities. Together with the Prosecution This agreement between the prosecution and Fred R. still has to be reviewed by the court.
Fred R. is not the first star witness in this process of murders in the underworld. After years of pointless study, concluded in 2007, the first star witness – Peter la S, aka Dirty Peter – a deal with the Public Prosecutor. This breakthrough did not lead to convictions of clients. Hence the deal with Fred R. Who is he? And how he was murdered realtor?
‘Fredje Hummer’
Fred R. was born in 1968 in Hilversum. In his younger years, he is a gifted footballer. A strong central defender. FC Volendam and FC Utrecht give the young R. opportunities in the football program, but he did not make it. The defect on the right sport mentality. After the extinction of his football ambitions Fred R. lands in the crime. He is a familiar face in his hometown Houses, where his front yard full of large Indian dolls. He drives a bright yellow Hummer, hence its nickname ‘Fredje Hummer’ on. After his conviction last year, the Hummer was put on sale for 13,150 euros.
About the beginning of his underworld career Relatively little is known. R. is described by criminals as a man who “weapons can control,” and he goes into the drug trade. The new chief witness captures the spotlight for the first time in 1998, when he is sentenced to a prison sentence of seventeen years. During a drug transaction – the intercept and steal a shipment of drugs – according to the court, he shot someone. Fred R. does not have to serve his sentence, his lawyer calls him free because the police would have made mistakes
However, this case is a turning point in his criminal career.. During the remand Fred R. teaches in the prison of Heerhugowaard Greg R. know a famous drug trafficker in the underworld. His son Jesse R., whom Fred R. after he released builds up a warm friendship. “They are very close,” says a witness of the two. “Jesse means a lot to Fred.”
Fred and Jesse
Fred came to Jesse on the floor, also had good contact with his brothers and rented a villa in Vinkenveen, the village where Jesse grew up. That villa in the news because the police will find a lot weapons in 2003. Grenades, telescopic sights, bullet vest world and more weapons. Fred R., tenant of the villa, is arrested. Later it turns out the spacious home of actress Katja Schuurman, who does not know that a rental her house has sublet to a career criminal.
The weapons discovery shows that friendship has become a criminal alliance ownership. And in the world of Jesse means liquidate. Jesse R. grew up in a criminal environment, and kept himself busy with hard crime. At a very young age In the early nineties Jesse killed two Yugoslavs, whose bodies were found later. Completely charred
This is the new world of Fred R. With Jesse he takes a ‘hit list’ on. The clients are the Prosecution: Willem Holleeder, Dino S. and Ali A. And R. Fred can explain about that: he was there when the contacts are made between the killers and clients. For the police is difficult to ascertain. They communicate in code with tricky traceable phones. “I have a fever ‘means that police are close
Although the bond between Jesse R. and Fred R. -. No family – was committed, there is also a big difference. Jesse rose with regularity on the role of the shooter himself, while Fred chose a role in the shade. Unlike Jesse Fred did not pull the trigger. The new star witness is seen as cunning organizer.
The death list
The dead list that Jesse and Fred assume is not on paper, but is imprinted right in the head by a select few. The names on the list have an agreement: they are all perceived enemies of Willem Holleeder. The first victim is also the most famous criminal suspects as the Public Prosecutor. In 2003, Jesse and Fred were involved in the murder of Heinekenontvoerder Cor van Hout, in the environment known as Flipper. He will be a Chinese restaurant in Amstelveen riddled with bullets fired by two men on a motorcycle. The shooters are not recognized because of the helmets they wore. The engine is found, but the killer was never caught
Earlier it was a failed attack on Van Hout committed:.
In 2005, following the assassination of property and drug dealer Cees Houtman. This is paid 130,000 euros. Houtman has shortly before his death at the police explained how he was being blackmailed by Holleeder. “The Nose” was convicted in 2007 for this fact
Willem Holleeder was two years ago, a few months after his release in a broadcast of College Tour:.
In 2006, following a murder of a self-declared enemy of Holleeder: innkeeper Thomas van der Bijl in his café De Hallen in Amsterdam West shot. Van der Bijl, friends with Cor van Hout and Cees Houtman, was threatened by Holleeder. “It is a very annoying man who Holleeder” says Van der Bijl just before his death to the police. “You do not know him back, it has become a beast. Hitler was a dog and he had his son could be “
Café De Hallen at the corner Taciturne Avenue / Jan van Galenstraat in Amsterdam where barkeep Thomas van der Bijl was murdered. ANP Photo / Marcel Antonisse
Fred R. says out loud what justice for years thinking: Willem Holleeder is the originator of these murders. In criminal cases include pictures to find where Fred R. and Willem Holleeder to stand together. By bringing in Fred R. themselves as key witness, the prosecution hopes to get those suspicions confirmed. But will it succeed? “We take Holleeder only if we are certain that he is convicted,” said a source within the judiciary.
Here is the new position of Fred R. The central defender of yesteryear is still the man in the middle.
Fred R. is suddenly the spider in the web of Passage Process. NRC / FG MJ
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