When presenter Robbert Rodenburg asks him what the attack on Peter R. did to him, Kees says it was a huge shock. At the time the crime reporter was shot, Kees was in Cyprus for a report. “I was there with my cameraman Job, who has also been shooting with Peter since 1996 – also with me. We just cried in the hotel.”
“We actually thought: he is dead, we had that conviction. Then it turned out not to be the case and we got a little hope again. And after a week he was really dead … What did that do to me? (.. .) That really affected it, but throughout the Netherlands.”
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Peter R. and Kees worked together day in and day out for years and saw each other more often than their own wives. Kees says: “We had a bit of a crazy click: he was a fact fucker and knew everything, every detail. He was a real crime expert and I’m just a bit of a confused director, but we clicked very well. team, never argued, it was just always good. When you’ve had so many adventures together… (…) It’s intense of course.”
Kees has not yet processed it. However, he still has regular contact with the ex-wife of Peter R., Jacqueline. “My wife also knew him well. The reason she started working for television was because she wanted to work for Peter R. de Vries, but she never succeeded. So we talk about it a lot.”
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Kees is not afraid that he will be next. “I’m not into that kind of work either,” he explains. “Peter was of course involved in certain things… I don’t do serious crime, never. I never did and that doesn’t really interest me.”
He continues: “The programs I make are about an individual that happens to something, I go on a journey – on an adventure – to find out who that was. But those people there barely know who I am, let alone being filmed. It won’t be on TV there either, so no… I don’t have that.”
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