### Origins of the Investigation In July 1993, a twelve-year-old German boy named [[Manuel Schadwald]] was reported missing in Berlin, though authorities initially dismissed him as a runaway and little was done for over a year. The case only gained momentum in 1994 when two teenagers came forward with harrowing accounts of being trafficked into the Rotterdam sex trade. These boys had been prostituting themselves on the streets of Hamburg when they were approached by Dutchmen who offered them large sums of money to travel to Rotterdam for what was described as a pornography filming opportunity. Upon arrival, their passports were seized, and they were forced to work in a brothel owned by a German national named [[Lothar Glandorf]], paying off inflated travel costs through sexual servitude. While held there, they encountered a boy who identified himself as Manuel Schadwald, matching the age and description of the missing child they had seen on posters back in Germany. A third teenager from Berlin soon corroborated this account, identifying Schadwald from photographs as another boy he had met in Glandorf's establishment. ### The HIK Report and Its Revelations German authorities relayed this information to Dutch police in Rotterdam, prompting the formation of a task force in September 1994 to investigate [[Lothar Glandorf]] and locate Manuel Schadwald. A wiretap was placed on Glandorf's phone, and surveillance teams were assigned to monitor his movements. During this operation, surveillance personnel observed Glandorf in the company of a boy they identified as Manuel Schadwald, yet inexplicably took no action. This critical observation was omitted from the final report, known as "De Handel In Kinderen" or the HIK report, though it remained in the raw surveillance logs that were later leaked to Dutch media in 1998. The HIK report contained far more than the surveillance of Schadwald. It detailed how Glandorf was systematically smuggling boys from Eastern Europe into his Rotterdam brothels, Euro Boys and Young Boys, where they were pimped to VIP clients and child pornographers. The investigation uncovered that one of Glandorf's clients, [[Martin Smollners]], had murdered a boy in 1986 and that Glandorf had rented another boy to Smollners for a torture porn film in which the victim's testicles were wired to a generator. The report also established that Glandorf was selling boys to British pedophiles operating in Amsterdam, information that was apparently never forwarded to Scotland Yard. ### The Joris Connection and Aftermath Perhaps the most explosive revelation from the HIK report wiretaps involved a senior Dutch government official named "Joris" who called Glandorf from Poland seeking advice on smuggling a boy across the Dutch border. In another recorded conversation, this same official inquired about the availability of new boys and mentioned that the last one had contracted an STD. There was significant contention over which "Joris" this was. One candidate was Joris Francken, a bureaucrat in the Ministry for Health under Minister Els Borst, who later served as Deputy Prime Minister. The other, and more disturbing possibility, was [[Joris Demmink]], then Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice. Demmink would later resign in 2012 amid a U.S. Helsinki Commission inquiry into his connections to the [[Rolodex Investigation]], a 1997 probe into an Amsterdam callboy service catering to Dutch justice officials. The HIK Investigation of 1994 formed one pillar of a trio of interlinked investigations in the 1990s that suggested the existence of a vast European child trafficking network. Alongside [[Operation Framework]] and the [[Rolodex Investigation]], the HIK report demonstrated how child brothels in Rotterdam connected to pornographers in Amsterdam and to senior government officials who appeared to operate with impunity. The fact that Dutch surveillance teams spotted Manuel Schadwald alive with Glandorf and did nothing remains one of the most troubling aspects of the case, suggesting either catastrophic incompetence or deliberate obstruction. When journalist Nick Davies investigated the network of British pedophiles in Amsterdam during the 1990s, he learned from a boy working at the Festival Bar that Schadwald had been seen in Glandorf's Rotterdam clubs, with rumors that he had been sold to pornographers in Amsterdam's Spuistraat district, where [[Warwick Spinks]] and [[Alan Williams]] managed nightclubs. A former boy prostitute of Glandorf's named [[Robbie Van Der Plancken]] would later claim that Glandorf sold Manuel Schadwald directly to Warwick Spinks. [^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.