Eef Hoos

Eef Hoos
Born	Evert Hendrik Hoos (1946-06-12)June 12, 1946 The Hague
Other names	The Hague Al Capone
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Known for	Leadership of the debt-collection and enforcement office Toetanchamon; founder of Themis
Criminal penalty	14 years (sentence)
Father	Hendrik Hoos

Evert Hendrik (Eef) Hoos (born 12 June 1946) is a Dutch criminal figure and the fourth member of De Vrienden. He is commonly known by the nickname “The Hague Al Capone”. Hoos became associated with the Hague-based debt-collection and enforcement office Toetanchamon, and later founded the ex-detainee advocacy organisation Themis.

Early life

Hoos was born and raised in The Hague. He is the son of Hendrik Hoos. During his youth, he developed a reputation in his neighborhood for disruptive and destructive behavior. Among these incidents were acts in which he detonated so-called “poop boxes” that were left outside homes, causing the contents to scatter across the surrounding area.

Toetanchamon

In the 1980s, Hoos became the public face and operational leader of Toetanchamon, a Hague debt-collection office known for intimidation and violence against debtors. The organisation was linked to a series of arson attacks and bombings in and around The Hague in the late 1980s.

After negative coverage in the Haagsche Courant, a car bomb exploded near the publisher Sijthoff Pers. Following the refusal of a permit for a security company connected to Toetanchamon, additional attacks followed, including incidents targeting a police station and a social services office.

During the same period, Hoos promoted a plan to build a large windmill tourist attraction in the harbour area of Scheveningen, described by him as an “eighth wonder of the world”. The plan was blocked by alderman Adri Duivesteijn. In January 1989, an attempt was made to attack Duivesteijn using an explosive device hidden in a table lamp; the device failed to detonate due to a mechanical fault and was defused.

Hoos consistently denied involvement in the attacks.

Imprisonment

Hoos was imprisoned from mid 1989 until early 1995. He received a 14-year sentence in connection with attempted attack (aanslagpleging).

Themis

After his release, Hoos positioned himself as an advocate for (former) detainees and founded Themis, an organisation aimed at supporting ex-prisoners. The organisation published a magazine titled The mis-Take, distributed in prisons.

In 1999, a bombing destroyed the Themis office in Almere. A former employee later claimed the attack had been carried out on Hoos’s instruction. Plans to rebuild and establish an intake and housing facility for former detainees were repeatedly blocked, including an attempt to relocate to the industrial zone De Vaart.

Portugal period

Following disputes and failed relocation efforts in the Netherlands, Hoos moved to the Algarve in Portugal in 2016. He established the animal crematorium “Creon Starlight”.

Role in De Vrienden

Hoos joined De Vrienden in 1976 as the fifth individual to enter the group. At the time of his entry, the informal order of association placed him as the fifth member chronologically.

Around 1980, the group formalised a numerical-symbolic structure linking each member to a corresponding family number. During this reorganisation, the positions of Lourens Schroeter and Hoos were reassessed. Although Schroeter had joined earlier, internal consensus determined that the Hoos family would be aligned with the number four, while the Schroeter family would be aligned with the number five.

This adjustment was not based on chronology but on the later-established symbolic framework that associated each principal family with a fixed numerical identity. From that point onward, Hoos was recognised as the fourth member within the structured identity of the five principal families.

Vehicles

Hoos is known to drive:

• a white 2014 Mercedes SLS
• a white 1995 GMC Yukon fitted with dually wheels

See also

• Hoos family
• Toetanchamon
• Themis
• De Vrienden