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10 years ago

Missing Dutch Girls

10 years ago

MESSAGE FROM THE FAMILIES OF KRIS REMERS AND LISANNE FROON
April 19, 2014

Dear Boquete Friends,

We, the families of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, most urgently want to insure the search for our missing daughters continues without any delays or interruptions, even though we now have to temporarily return to Holland. Please be advised we plan to return periodically to Boquete and thus have set up detailed arrangements for both public and private sources to continue fully with the search and investigation in our absence.

We deeply appreciate the warmth, sympathy and support of the Boquete community. We do fully understand that a lot of people here, are more than willing to help us as we have received many offers of financial and other forms of support. We have not had the opportunity to thank all of you individually but please accept our sincere thanks we are expressing herein.

To insure that all the help is fully coordinated and to be sure it all is effectively directed towards the goal of the safe return of our daughters, we are setting up a special local bank account for donations to help keep the search going, paying private investigators, paying the the expenses of conducting searches, posting notices and posters, and to do anything and everything that may be necessary to keep the attention of the media, authorities and the public focused on the case of Kris and Lisanne.

In this regard, we are very happy with the ideas and thoughts we have received from you, the local community. However, to be sure that all is done with the families full knowledge and approval, we would like to be advised in advance, so that you as a donor, and/or volunteer can be sure of the family’s approval. In this way we hope to avoid having confusion, conflicts and misunderstandings. It is our desire that all efforts are thus coordinated through a single source to avoid doing things twice, delay, wasted effort and expense.

To coordinate these efforts we have requested, Bob Edwards, to be our direct contact in Boquete and the Dutch Ambassador in Panama City, the Honorable Wiebe J. de Boer, for all official contacts.

We will be in constant contact with them, including video conferences. We have been assured of full and complete cooperation by Caesar Sherrard of Alto Crimen and the local Police authorities. The Dutch Ambassador has likewise been promised the continuing full cooperation of the Panamanian government by President Martinelli and by the National Police.

You can reach Bob Edwards at: [email protected] and Ambassador Wiebe J. de Boer at [email protected].

As Kris and Lisanne’s families, we will keep in close and constant touch with any and all of the developments in the search and investigation in Boquete. As stated above we will return to Panama periodically and/or as needed to keep the government, public , police and media attention fully focused on the case until our girls are located and returned. Thanks for your thoughts, prayers and support.
Yours sincerely....................

Hans Kremers and Roelie Grit, parents of Kris Kremers...........................
Peter and Dini Froon, parents of Lisanne Froon

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