Dutch criminal offense reporter Peter De Vries, that was fired in Amsterdam on July 6, has actually passed away of his injuries, his household states.
Dutch media network RTL– for whom De Vries functioned– lugged a declaration that read: “Peter dealt with throughout, however was not able to win the fight.”
The household asked for personal privacy to ensure that it can “refine his fatality in tranquility”.
De Vries, 64, was fired on July 6 after making a look on Dutch TELEVISION. The reporter was well-known for his reporting on the nation’s criminal abyss.
Dutch authorities have actually formerly stated that they have actually detained a 21-year-old as well as a 35-year-old, nationals of the Netherlands as well as Poland, specifically, over the capturing. The previous is thought to be the shooter while the last is charged of driving the trip auto.
‘ A strike on journalism’
Dutch King Willem Alexander recently called the capturing of De Vries “an assault on journalism, the keystone of our constitutional state as well as for that reason additionally an assault on the regulation of regulation.”
The slaying additionally struck home somewhere else in Europe, where murders on press reporters are uncommon as well as where the murders of reporters in Slovakia as well as Malta in the last few years elevated issues regarding press reporters’ safety and security in established, autonomous cultures.
” We could differ with a whole lot we see in our media, however we need to concur that reporters checking out prospective misuses of power are not a hazard however a property to our freedoms as well as our cultures,” European Payment Head of state Ursula von der Leyen informed European Parliament legislators recently.
