Assassination of Theo Van Gogh
Bouyeri assassinated Van Gogh in the early morning of 2 November 2004, in Amsterdam, in front of the Amsterdam East borough office (stadsdeelkantoor) on the corner of the Linnaeusstraat and Tweede Oosterparkstraat (52°21′32.22″N 4°55′34.74″E / 52.35895°N 4.9263167°E / 52.35895; 4.9263167), while he was bicycling to work. Bouyeri shot Van Gogh eight times with an HS2000 handgun and Van Gogh died on the spot. He also tried to decapitate Van Gogh with one knife, and stabbed him in the chest with another. The two knives were left implanted; one attached a five-page note to his body. The note threatened Western governments, Jews and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (who went into hiding). The note also contained references to the ideologies of the Jewish books of the Talmud, and of the Egyptian organization Takfir wal-Hijra. Six years after the assassination, in a letter to a Muslim group in Belgium, he wrote that he still had no regrets about killing Van Gogh.
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