# Drama in the French Embassy

On 13 September, the French ambassador in The Hague was taken hostage by members of the Japanese Red Army, with the aim of freeing their comrade Ytaka Furuya from a French prison. Negotiations by the government's policy group lead, after four days, to the release of the remaining hostages, the Japanese terrorists departing from Schiphol Airport with Furuya and a ransom of $300,000 by Boeing 707 to an unknown destination. SHOTS: ext. French embassy; empty streets around the embassy; waiting journalists, policemen and soldiers; cameras set up in the windows of the nearby NOS studio; French Mystère at Schiphol Airport with Furuya on board; hostage taker hoists package with medicine upstairs; captain Pim Sierks, who has to fly the Boeing 707, on his way to embassy for talks with terrorists; int. Schiphol with agents with weapons; Boeing 707 waiting at Schiphol; hostage takers with hostages get into police van; soldiers in tanks around Schiphol; departure of Boeing 707 in darkness; press conference Prime Minister Joop den Uyl.

- Kind: Film
- By: Polygoon-Profilti (producent)
- Genres: Drama
- Archive: [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu/item/2051906/data_euscreenXL_https___www_openbeelden_nl_media_660672)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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