Peter R De Vries was shot several times after he finished recording a TV show at RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam.
![Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries was critically wounded after being shot in broad daylight in Amsterdam last week [Remko de Waal/ANP via AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9F34JM.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Peter R De Vries was shot several times after he finished recording a TV show at RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam.
![Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries was critically wounded after being shot in broad daylight in Amsterdam last week [Remko de Waal/ANP via AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9F34JM.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Peter R. de Vries reported on the biggest Dutch crime cases and showed compassion for the relatives of murder victims.
![Peter R. de Vries was shot up to five times in broad daylight in Amsterdam on July 6 [Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9E82CG-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Van Lienden said there was zero personal gain when he secured millions of face masks, words that have come to haunt him.
![Sywert van Lienden's non-profit foundation to import PPE has been found to have made considerable profit [Courtesy: Creative Commons]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sywert_van_Lienden_2017.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The vote is viewed by some as a referendum on the government’s management of the coronavirus crisis.
![A voter casts her vote in Utrecht [Robin Van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/000_94Z7RG.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)