Toos Faber-de Heer (23 February 1929 – 6 August 2020) was a Dutch journalist and justice information officer. Faber was born in Batavia (

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...

). In 1975 she became known as the spokeswoman of

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Dries van Agt Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt (; 2 February 1931 – 5 February 2024) was a Dutch politician, jurist and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 December 1977 until 4 November 1982. He was a prominent leader o ...

during the

1975 Dutch train hostage crisis On 2 December 1975, seven South Moluccans seized a train with about 50 passengers on board in open countryside near the village of Wijster, halfway between Hoogeveen and Beilen in the northern part of the Netherlands. The hijacking lasted fo ...

by South Moluccan youth in Wijster on 2 December 1975. Eighteen months later, after the

1977 Dutch train hijacking On 23 May 1977, a train was hijacked near the village of De Punt, Netherlands. At around 9am, nine armed Moluccans, Moluccan Moluccan diaspora, nationalists pulled the Emergency brake (train), emergency brake and took over 50 people hostage. T ...

on 23 May 1977 Faber was involved as a spokesperson. At the end of 1977 it seemed that Faber would be appointed secretary of state in the

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at the Ministry of Defense, but that did not happen. Around September 1981 the NOS started the television series ''Het Capitool'', where she became one of the presenters together with Joop van Tijn and Herman Wigbold. She stopped after a few months. She died in

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, aged 91.

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