Amsterdam. A Dutch court docket on Wednesday convicted three males of homicide for his or her involvement within the 2021 capturing loss of life of investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries, a hanging assault in central Amsterdam that shocked the Netherlands.
The shooter, the getaway driver and a criminal offense organizer had been convicted of direct involvement within the homicide. The shooter and driver had been sentenced to twenty-eight years, whereas the person who organized the plot acquired a sentence of 26 years and one month.
The three confirmed unprecedented cruelty and unscrupulousness. Their actions and the recklessness they confirmed present that they don’t care about human life,” presiding decide Gert Oldekamp stated on the Amsterdam District Court docket.
De Vries was shot on July 5, 2021 on a busy Amsterdam road and died from his wounds 9 days later, aged 64.
There have been a complete of 9 males charged in reference to the occasion. Three had been sentenced for complicity to sentences of between 10 and 14 years. A person was convicted of drug possession however acquitted of complicity in homicide. He acquired a four-week sentence.
Two others had been acquitted as a result of they had been solely charged with membership in a felony group, and judges concluded that the prosecution had not confirmed the existence of a felony group.
The total names of the suspects weren’t made public, consistent with Dutch privateness guidelines.
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– 2024-06-21 18:45:02
