Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken

[citation needed] Meijer escaped and lived in Paraguay for years, until he was discovered by Peter R. de Vries and imprisoned there.

[citation needed] 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.

Shortly after his release Van Hout was jailed once again, this time for four years, for his role in a drug smuggling ring.

They were detained for three weeks in a Quonset hut, belonging to Boellaard's wood manufacturing company, at business park De Heining in Westpoort, in the western part of the Amsterdam harbour 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.

In 2010, these reports were bundled and published in the book De Heineken Ontvoering, by journalist Nick Kivits and kidnapping expert Sjerp Jaarsma.

Jan Boellaard, Frans Meijer and Martin Erkamps also demanded that IDTV should not show the film, as it would not be accurate enough.