The former Marine files a lawsuit against the lawyer Moluccan pirates of the air

De Jong was involved as a nineteen year old marine in the liberation action of the elementary school. Four young Moluccas then invaded De Meenthe primary school in Bovensmilde, Drenthe. They welcomed 105 children and their teachers.

Parents stunned

"All attention is drawn to the train hijacking in Punt, because there have been deaths on release, but taking hostages to the primary school was at least as dramatic, "says De Jong. . "The school hijacking was very intense and sad, the distraught parents who were in the playground and who could not be with their children, it was so intense, these kidnapped children are now about 50 years old . Some of them had a horrible influence.

After four nights, the children were released. It turned out that there was a virus in the school that had been deliberately distributed in the food afterwards to free the children. Four of the teachers were still being held hostage. After three weeks, the school was private and the hostage teachers were released. The pirates of the air surrendered after the school was stormed with armored cars.

Excessive Violence

"In a short time we had captured these takers," says De Jong. "Now it's forty years later, and the liberation actions in the diversion are still in the news. It has long been known whether excessive force would have been used. At first, I thought: it will be a fight for me, but he began to annoy me more and more about these messages. "

De Jong thinks the Moluccas are now making victims, and that they are losing sight of this that they did to the hostages.

I went to a memorial at the town hall, a couple came to thank me, they said to me: you have been living for forty years because they really thought that they would die during the Abduction, the situation was deadly and this man started crying He said to me: "I find it awful that the Maluku pirates now show up as victims, while that has got so much of influence on us. "

Then something went well with the old navy of Rotterdam. himself: "that's the zott e, that we have to leave this over and over again. "He could only find a solution: the counterattack, a report for defamation and defamation. The lawyer of the pirates of the air, the Ridderkerkse Liesbeth Zegveld

Hoping statements

De Jong thinks she paints a false image of the Marines. "Zegveld accuses us and portrays us as if we were a death squad of the government, as if we knowingly slaughtered people at bay." Ms. Zegveld also said that the monopoly of violence was reserved for the government, and that this was violated The world is upset. "

He has always had respect for the Moluquian positions, emphasizes De Jong." I have a lot of sympathy for the position of the Maluku, who in the 1950s really liked it. When they're finished here, they're angry, I can imagine everything. ""

"But the means they used to argue their point of view, which was purely criminal, that caused a lot of suffering, I chose it: there are five Eight people were shot, they were simply murdered, I do not want to shave everyone, but the Moluccas are presented as victims. "

Signal

The statement is a signal that he wants to give." I hope that other ex-Marines will pick it up and fill out a sample statement that I've put on our forum, and I hope it will put pressure on the public ministry to do something about it. "

De Jong goes to police station in Rotterdam on Monday.