The live broadcast of RTL Boulevard of Saturday night was canceled because the police allegedly intercepted messages from criminals about an attack on the editors of the program. NRC reports this on the basis of sources at the investigative services. Police declined to comment on the message.
A rocket launcher or automatic weapons could be used for such an attack. Within the criminal environment there would be much dissatisfaction about speculation in the media about the attack on Peter R. de Vries. There, a connection was made with the assistance that crime journalist provided to key witness Nabil B., who made incriminating statements about Ridouan Taghi.
The police and the municipality of Amsterdam do not want to confirm this reading to the newspaper.
Day rest for editors
The broadcast of RTL Boulevard also not going on tonight. RTL has decided that itself. Extra safety measures made a broadcast possible today, but ” we have decided to cancel the team of RTL Boulevard to give it some rest,” a statement from RTL said.
Everything is being done to resume the program from tomorrow, it says further. It is not clear whether that will happen in the permanent studio of the program, on Leidseplein. For security reasons, nothing about this will be disclosed.
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