Trial of 9 men accused of fatal shooting of Dutch journalist

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(23 Jan 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 23 January 2024
1. Mid of police motorcade arriving with suspects at the special security court in Amsterdam
2. Tilt up of policeman carrying a rifle
3. Pan of police car blocking road
4. Mid of policeman
5. Exterior of the special court

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ARCHIVE: Amsterdam, Netherlands - 31 January 2008
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6. Dutch investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries walking out of building towards journalists
7. Photographer
8. De Vries talking to other people in the room
9. De Vries walking away

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Lima, Peru - 5 June 2010
ARCHIVE: Lima, Peru - 5 June 2010
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10. Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, main suspect in the Holloway disappearance, being presented to the media

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ARCHIVE: Amsterdam, Netherlands - 21 July 2021
11. Woman crying at the commemoration service for Peter R. de Vries
12. Photo of De Vries
13. Worker helping woman
14. People waiting to pay their respects
15. Photo of De Vries

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 23 January 2024
16. CCTV cameras attached at the court
17. Journalists and the public waiting to enter the court
18. Mid of the court entrance
19. Police drone flaying over the court
20. Police in car
STORYLINE:
A long-delayed trial opened Tuesday of nine men accused of involvement in the fatal shooting of Dutch investigative reporter Peter R. de Vries on a downtown Amsterdam street.

Among the suspects is Delano G., who is accused of gunning down De Vries in broad daylight on July 6, 2021.

The reporter and television presenter died nine days later of his injuries at age 64.

The brazen slaying of a popular journalist sent shock waves through the Netherlands and an outpouring of grief.

Dutch King Willem-Alexander called it “an attack on journalism, the cornerstone of our constitutional state and therefore also an attack on the rule of law.”

Vries had been an adviser and confidant for a protected witness in the trial of the alleged leader and other members of a crime gang that police described as an “oiled killing machine”.

The alleged shooter was arrested less than an hour after the attack with a Polish national identified as Kamil E., the alleged getaway driver.

Prosecutors told judges at Amsterdam District Court that the weapon used to shoot De Vries was found in their car.

They both stood trial in 2022 and prosecutors demanded life sentences.

However, the court never delivered verdicts in their trial because prosecutors introduced new evidence late in the case.

They now are standing trial with suspects arrested in the weeks and months after the slaying who are accused of organizing the hit on De Vries.

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