Den Haag: Peter R de Vries, a famous Dutch crime reporter shot last week in insolent attacks in Amsterdam, had died, the Dutch media reported Thursday, quoting a statement from his family.
“Peter struggled to the end, but could not win the battle,” RTL, the Dutch Network de Vries regularly worked, quoting a family statement.
De Vries, 64, got up quickly from a young child reporter to become the most famous journalist in the Netherlands.
He is a pillar of support for the families of children who are killed or missing, a campaigner against injustice and thorns on the side of the gangster in the underground world that is getting cruel.
The family statement said he died surrounded by loved ones and asked for privacy for the family and the De Vries partner “to process his death peacefully.” “Peter has lived with his belief: On the knee bent is not a way to be free,” said the statement.
“We are very proud of him and at the same time not concocted.” De Vries, which is widely praised by his fearful report in the under the Dutch world, shot on July 6 after making one of his regular appearances on the current television show.
He recently became an advisor and believers for witnesses in the alleged court leader of the crime gang described by the police as “oiled murder machines.”.
“Peter R de Vries is always dedicated, resilient, not afraid of anything and nothing.
Always seek the truth and stand for justice,” Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a tweet.
“And it makes it even more dramatic that he himself has now become a victim of great injustice.” Two suspects have been detained in the shooting.
Dutch police said the suspected shooter was a 21-year-old Dutch, and a 35-year-old Poland man who lived in the Netherlands was accused of driving a vacation car.
They were arrested not long after de Vries was injured.
The suspected Gangland leader, Ridouan Taghi, was extradited to the Netherlands from Dubai in 2019.
He remained imprisoned while standing at the trial along with 16 other suspects.
The Netherlands King Willem Alexander last week called the shooting de Vries “attack on journalism, our constitutional state foundation and therefore also an attack on legal supremacy.” The massacre also crashed into chords elsewhere in Europe, where the killings of journalists rarely and where the murder of journalists in Slovakia and Malta in recent years caused concerns about the safety of journalists in the society developed.
“We may not agree with the many we see in our media, but we must agree that journalists who investigate the potential of power abuse are not a threat but assets for our democracies and our society,” said the European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen to Parliament Europe last week’s parliamentarian.
De Vries won Emmy International in 2008 for television shows that he made about the loss of AS Natalee Holloway’s teenager when he was on vacation on the Caribbean Island of the Netherlands Aruba in 2005.
In 2018, while acting as a spokesman for a 11-year-old boy who was misused and killed on In 1998, De Vries appealed anywhere about the existence of suspects identified in the DNA probe.
“I can’t live with the idea that he won’t be arrested,” De Vries said when he withdrew assistance at a televised press conference.
“I won’t rest until that happens.” The suspect was arrested a few weeks later in Spain and was punished last year in the death of the boy, Nicky Verstappen.
De Vries’s comments about the suspect in Nicky’s empowerment concluded the tenacity which was a career foundation who saw him report some of the most famous crimes in the Netherlands, including 1983 kidnappings from Fredden Heineken beer.
Acting on the tip, de Vries tracked one of the kidnappers in Paraguay in 1994.
He was friends with kidnapper, Cor Van Hout, who was then shot in Amsterdam.
Another of the kidnappers, Willem Holleeder, who was Brother-in-law van Hout, was punished in 2019 inciting the murder of Van Hout and four other people.
Holleeder was sentenced to life imprisonment.