FILE PHOTO: Flowers and a note rest on the place where Dutch celebrity crime reporter Peter R. de Vries has been shot and reported seriously injured in Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Eva Plevier/File Photo
July 15, 2021
By Stephanie van den Berg and Bart H. Meijer
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Celebrity Dutch crime reporter Peter R. De Vries has died just over a week after being shot in the street, his family and his employer Dutch RTL news said on Thursday.
De Vries, who was 64, had been both a frequent commentator on television crime programmes and an expert crime reporter with sources in both law enforcement and the underworld.
The attack on a busy Amsterdam street prompted outrage across Europe.
“Peter fought till the end but wasn’t able to win this battle. He died surrounded by the people who loved him,” his family said in a statement published by RTL, the network who employed De Vries as crime reporter.
“He lived true to his motto: ‘On bended knee is no way to be free’,” his family said.
De Vries had received threats from the criminal underworld in the past in connection with several cases.
(Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg and Bart Meijer; Writing by Ingrid MelanderEditing by Gareth Jones)
Source: One America News Network
