Renowned Dutch crime reporter shot in Amsterdam

(6 Jul 2021) One of the Netherlands’ best known crime reporters was shot in the Dutch capital on Tuesday evening and taken to a hospital with serious injuries, police said.
Peter R. de Vries was shot in downtown Amsterdam after making one of his regular appearances on a current affairs television show.
Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said in parliament he was “deeply shocked” by the attack.
The 64-twelvemonth-old De Vries is known for his fearless reporting on the Netherlands’ underworld.
He won an International Emmy in 2008 for a television show he made about the disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway spell she was on holiday in the Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005.
The main suspect in the Holloway disappearance, Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, was convicted in Lima over the murder of a 21-twelvemonth-old Peruvian student after meeting her in a Online Casino Netherlands in the Peru capital.
That murder occurred five years to the day after Holloway disappeared during a high school graduation trip to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba, where van der Sloot lived.

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