shooting near the downtown Leidseplein square.... In 2013 Willem Holleeder, the Heineken kidnapper

AMSTERDAM( REUTERS)-Celebrity crime reporter Peter R.de Vries, known for his work in exposing the Dutch underworld, was shot and seriously wounded on a street in Amsterdam, police said on Tuesday( July 6).“ Peter R.de Vries was shot down in Lange Leidsedwarsstraat, ” police said in a statement, referring to a street near one of the city’s largest public squares, where he had been in a television studio earlier in the evening.He was taken to a nearby hospital in “ serious condition ”, the police

Dutch police said the suspected shooter is a 21-year-old Dutchman, and a 35-year-old Polish man living in the Netherlands is accused of driving the getaway car.... “ We are unbelievably proud of him and at the same time inconsolable.” De Vries had been fighting for his life in an Amsterdam hospital since the attack.... He had recently been an adviser and confidant for a witness in the trial of the alleged leader and other members of a crime gang that police described as an “ oiled killing mach