Investigative reporter Peter R de Vries was shot on a busy street in Amsterdam
in a busy Amsterdam street and died in hospital nine days later. The court in Amsterdam said the murder had “severely shaken Dutch society” but said there was not enough evidence to convict any of the defendants of “murder with terrorist intent”.
‘I’m a girl from a council estate and I’ve had to prove my worth.’ Angela Rayner back in the driving seat for Labour“The crime shows there was a premeditated plan and each of the three knew he had to play his part for it to be successful,” the judges said. Two others, Erickson O and Gerower M , were originally charged with “raising fear with terrorist intent” by filming the shooting and its aftermath and posting it on social media. Each were sentenced to 10 years, but the reference to “terrorist intent” was removed from the convictions.
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