Willem Holleeder leaves the court in Haarlem with his lawyer Stijn Franken. Photo ANP / Robin Lonkhuijsen
Justice is Willem Holleeder as the principal of the murder of Thomas van der Bijl and Kees Houtman. Both Van der Bijl as Houtman talked years ago with the police Holleeder and how Nose them endangered. NRC wrote about that in 2006. They were afraid of Willem Holleeder, as revealed: “They murder me when I talk to the police.”
By Jan Meeus and Tom Kreling
The Amsterdam pub boss Thomas van der Bijl told police how Willem Holleeder exploit him, evidenced by statements. Then he was killed.
If innkeeper and hashish dealer Thomas van der Bijl on November 6, 2004 his café De Hallen enters, he looks straight into the eyes of Willem Holleeder. Before he Heineken kidnapper can say goodbye, Van der Bijl has been hit hard, the back of his head.
Willem Holleeder is blazing, illustrated in one of the statements that Thomas van der Bijl between January 2005 and February 2006 traveled to the police about Holleeder. Those statements, which yesterday (July 2006, ed.) Are added to the criminal file against Holleeder, shed new light on his intimidating practices.
He can not talk
Van der Bijl should keep his mouth says Holleeder while he watches his old friend is beaten by an accomplice in another. Van der Bijl had publicly said that Holleeder was responsible for the liquidation in 2003, Cor van Hout. Wood was Holle managers childhood friend, brother and fellow kidnapper of beer tycoon Freddy Heineken and his driver.
A picture of the cafe on the corner of Halls William the Silent Avenue and Jan van Galenstraat Amsterdam. Photo ANP / Marcel Antonisse
Van der Bijl, Holleeder let you know, it should not get into his head to talk to the police. “They have told me that they murder me when I talk to the police,” Van der Bijl says in his statements to investigators of the NCIS.
April this year (2006, ed.) Thomas was of der Bijl wound in his pub in Amsterdam-West. His death is a lot like that of two other victims of Willem Holleeder:. Amsterdam real estate traders Willem Endstra and Kees Houtman
Endstra and Houtman were, according to the prosecution, extorted by the gang of Willem Holleeder (since January stuck). Like Van der Bijl spoke Endstra and Houtman with the police about extortion, threats and abuse by Holleeder. The end of the three men has macabre agreements:. Liquidated in mafia style
Although there is no concrete evidence that Holleeder was involved in three murders, the image in the criminal case is clear: if the police are talking about his extortion, his life is not certain. Yesterday (2006 ed.) Added, detailed explanations of Thomas van der Bijl strengthen the image of Holleeder as Godfather , which is the underworld ruled with a heavy hand.
The much talked broadcast College Tour with Holleeder from 2012:
The Halls
Van der Bijl’s café in Amsterdam West has been open briefly. On a weekday afternoon three men sitting at the bar. André Hazes sings. The interior is simple. Tables, chairs and two slots in the corner. Behind the bar hangs a picture of Van der Bijl state, his arms beaten back two young women.
Café, Thomas van der Bijl and his wife ran since 2004, was known to the police and the underworld. Kees Houtman, a good friend of Van der Bijl, came there often. Also underworld kingpins when Willem Holleeder, Cor van Hout and John Mieremet were spotted regularly.
Thomas van der Bijl was not just a hashish dealer. He knew the Heineken kidnappers Van Hout and Holleeder well. Indeed, he was a long time call a good friend. Van der Bijl gave Van Hout and Holleeder in 1984 a getaway car when police duo unmasked as two of the five kidnappers Freddy Heineken and his driver.
After the release of the Heineken kidnappers in 1991 Van der Bijl belonged to the inner circle of the crime organization Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder when setting up. This is apparent from wiretaps in the City Peaks file, a 1996 study for the activities of Van Hout and Holleeder, including drug trafficking.
Willem Holleeder looks out from the court in Haarlem. Photo ANP / Robin Lonkhuijsen
Thomas van der Bijl works in this period as a driver for Holleeder and Van Hout. But around 1996 get Holleeder and Van Hout quarrel. The reason stories doing the rounds. Holleeder choose another criminal like buddy, John Mieremet. Van der Bijl remains loyal to Van Hout, his best friend. Thus he becomes involved in the break between the Heineken kidnappers and the division of their assets:. Whore houses in the Red Light District in Amsterdam and the Achterdam Alkmaar
A person of that time explains the police during the City Peaks research how that went. Ahmida B .: “After the splitting Cor van Hout had so Alkmaar with Thomas van der Bijl. Willem Holleeder had the remainder of the Red Light District. Cor van Hout is the boss on the Achterdam and gives orders to Thomas van der Bijl. “
Ahmida B. had it right, it now appears from the statements of Van der Bijl. Van der Bijl tells of the quarrel between Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder and the division of their assets. About his friendship with Cor van Hout. And the extortion of Kees Houtman by Willem Holleeder.
The year 2003 was a turning point in the life of Van der Bijl. His friend Cor van Hout is murdered in Amstelveen. The reason is much speculation. Holleeder would have been behind it. But that was never proven. And a shooter is not caught.
“Shoot him, shoot him”
“He had cents have
Thomas van der Bijl loses with the death of Van Hout an important pillar in the Amsterdam environment, as he states in the summer of that same year. On June 9, is Van der Bijl to eat with a group of friends at his beach bar Venice Beach in Zandvoort. Then one Hugo B. Beach, along with another unknown man. Hugo B. seems to want to talk to Thomas Chopper, but hits him with a chair on his head. “Shoot him, shoot him,” Van der Bijl hears as he recovers from the blow.
Hugo B. wanted to see money, Van der Bijl explains later to the police. “I felt that he was blackmailing me. He needed money: EUR 5,000 “Van der Bijl hinted that Hugo B. probably acting on behalf of another.. Who is that he is not telling. “I know nothing else. Maybe I’m a little scared for myself, I’m afraid of reprisals, “Van der Bijl in July 2003.
Two years later, in his conversations with the National Crime Squad, the high word comes out. Thomas van der Bijl since the incident in Zandvoort afraid Willem Holleeder. Heineken kidnapper would have extorted him. Fearing he does not want to press charges against Holleeder, like Willem Endstra and Kees Houtman that dared not. History shows why. Who talks about Holleeder with the police, to fear for his life.
This article appeared on July 11, 2006 in nrc.next. Following the arrest of William Holleeder we decided to pick this piece from the archive
Read other pieces from NRC:.
– Who wanted Thomas dead? A great piece in response to the statements of the new witness in the Passage Process Fred Ros (€)
-. Everyone points to Nose. Holleeder would have to deal with three murders, how he still walks around freely? (€)
– How Holleeder himself transformed from top criminal sympathetic to Jordaan with humor, a piece from 2011 (€)
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