Peter R. de Vries was shot in the city center of Amsterdam last night after the broadcast of RTL Boulevard, where he was seated. He is currently fighting in the hospital for his life.
‘Unreal’
The attack is also “something the RTL Boulevard team feared,” Elsinga said. She called the attack “unreal”. “That’s the feeling that keeps coming back.” She had a restless night. She slept badly. “I did sleep, I dreamed a lot. Tossed a lot. And when I woke up, I immediately felt it again. Unreal is the word that keeps coming back.
The moment you wake up, that reality kicks in, Elsinga describes. “Like: what happened yesterday?” She especially wants to show her support to the family.
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Elsinga has been working with Peter for about five years now. “It feels like ‘I can work with the Peter R. de Vries’. I also sometimes get mad at Peter when he rushes to interfere with something like a muppet on the bench of RTL Boulevard, then he must also say something about it. the king’s yacht when he is not sitting there.”
At the same time, he is very knowledgeable, she says. “He has done so much for a family like Nicky Verstappen’s.”
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She doesn’t want to say too much about the safety of De Vries. “That’s also something I don’t want to discuss here. How that worked, Peter’s security,” said Elsinga.
“Peter was not afraid. And of course you hope that it really was.” Various photos and videos are circulating on social media of the moment the crime journalist was shot on the street. Elsinga urged everyone not to forward those images.
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‘Don’t share violent images’
The police calls on people too not to share violent images of the attack on social media. Anyone who has seen anything suspicious is asked to come forward. “Help us, but don’t spread the violent images.”
YouTube announced last night that it has already removed hundreds of videos from the platform.
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Tonight will be RTL Boulevard just broadcast live. “As Peter would expect from us”, RTL announced last night. Elsinga is looking forward to the episode of RTL Boulevard tonight, she said. Elsinga thinks that episode is probably “the hardest I’ve ever made.”
Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack. Two of them were removed from the possible getaway car on the A4.
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