The attack on him Dutch journalist is a “nightmare” for his family, his son said today Peter R. de Vries amid growing messages of support for the author of a criminal case who was severely wounded by an unknown bullet on Tuesday night on a street in Amsterdam.
“Our worst nightmare came true yesterday. “We as a family surround Peter with love and hope during these difficult times,” he wrote on Twitter.
He said that many things are not yet clear about the incident and thanked for the wave of popular support received by his father.
The 64-year-old de Vries, who had repeatedly received threats against his life, gives battle to be kept alive, as announced by the mayor of Amsterdam Femke Halsema.
Police announced for their part that two men were arrested on a highway shortly after the attack, one of whom was a Polish national, who will remain in custody, while a third person was released.
Armed violence is rare in the Netherlands, but homicides are related to drug trafficking have become very common as people in the underworld clash over their spheres of influence, as broadcast by APE BPE.
In 2019, a lawyer in a highly publicized drug case, in which de Vries was an advisor to the key witness, was killed with bullets in front of his house in Amsterdam.
The abduction of Heineken
Citizens today laid flowers and lit candles at the site of the attack, outside a television studio in central Amsterdam where de Vries was interviewing about a recent case.
De Vries started out as a police newspaper editor and became famous for his 1987 book, The Abduction of Heineken, about the abduction of beer baron Freddie Heineken, which was transferred to the Big Screen under the title “Kidnapping Freddy HeinekenAnd starring Anthony Hopkins.
Kidnapper Willem Holindir was convicted in 2014 of threatening the life of de Vries, who helped police investigate cases in which Holindir was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
The famous journalist has also been honored with the International Emmy Award for his research in the case of the disappearance of the American teenager Natalie Holloway, in Aruba in 2005.
For 17 years he had his own television show, in which he often collaborated with the families of victims in unsolved attacks.
International condemnation
The attack on de Vries provoked outrage throughout Europe.
Journalists and press freedom organizations today unanimously condemned the attack. In public they announced the International Federation of Journalists (FIJ) and h European Federation of Journalists (FEJ) denounced “a new tragic blow to press freedom in Europe”.
The President of the FEJ Mogens Blisser Bieregard called for an “immediate investigation to bring the perpetrators of this horrific attack to justice”.
The NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and h Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed their solidarity with the journalist and called on the Dutch authorities to identify the perpetrators of this attack as soon as possible.
Earlier, the king William–Alexander of the Netherlands condemned the attack on the Dutch journalist, who was seriously injured last night by bullets and is being treated in critical condition, describing the attack against the Republic, which has shocked him deeply.
“This is a crime against journalism and an attack on the values ​​of democracy and the rule of law. We will continue to support the freedom of the press “, the President of the European Council said on Twitter Charles Michel.
For his part, the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli characterized the media as the backbone of the Republic.
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