Johan Derksen is no longer protected. The well-known football analyst announced four months ago that he has personal security because of a ‘threat case’, but writes in a column on Tuesday TKKR that it was a ‘false alarm’. Talpa boss John de Mol had arranged security for Derksen in the summer, who had been informed by the Public Prosecution Service of a potentially threatening situation.
“A hit man, sentenced to life in prison, sent e-mails to his girlfriend from prison, in which my name was mentioned. And he also sent a photo of me,” Derksen writes about the message he received from the Public Prosecution Service. It is not clear why Derksen’s name and photo appeared in the letters. “These were strange texts, in secret language, because the convicts know that the police are reading, but my name was indeed mentioned and photos of me were circulating, which were taken during a book signing session.”
Shortly after the murder of Peter R. de Vries, the Public Prosecution Service did not want to take any risks. The sender’s girlfriend’s brother was the ‘right-hand man’ of a ‘notorious criminal’, further ringing alarm bells. “According to the gentlemen, it made no sense to withdraw from television, because when an ‘order’ has been placed in the underworld, it is never cancelled,” explains Derksen. The opinion maker did not receive any protection from the Public Prosecution Service, as the threat was ‘work-related’, so De Mol arranged for a security guard. Derksen jokingly calls him ‘007’. “A device was placed under my car that allowed 007 to see where I was on his phone.”
“I had to change cars on the way to the studio, I saw all the middle class cars inside and finally, behind a gas station, I took a seat in an old van, as the ultimate camouflage. A Talpa star in a van, that was never before “Suddenly she was allowed to drive on the gas, fines no longer counted, in traffic jams we took the hard shoulder, because 007 did not want to be a target. The police patrolled around my house every night, because the underworld is posting an attack.” Derksen also got a ‘panic button’, which he once showed on TV. “Press in the event of danger and the police would storm in a little later. I had to hide that button for two months from René van der Gijp, who wanted to press it because he liked television.”