AMSTERDAM — A well-known Dutch crime reporter was shot in the head on Tuesday night after leaving a TV studio in the center of Amsterdam, the police said. Videos on social media showed Peter R. de Vries, 64, lying on the street with blood streaming from his face. The police wrote on Twitter that he was “seriously injured” and had been transported to the hospital. Mr. de Vries, who has long been a fixture in the Netherlands for solving cold cases and hosting his own televised crime show for nearly two decades, has said he regularly received death threats. Ridouan Taghi, accused of being the gang’s leader, is a Dutch-Moroccan, who was arrested in Dubai in 2019 and is the prime defendant in the case.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2021 22:52 UTC