Dutch crime reporter is fourth journalist murdered in as many years in the European Union

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Netherlands to set an example in the way it prosecutes those responsible for the shooting attack on the journalist Peter R. de Vries, who died of his injuries today (15 July), and urges the European Union to learn the lesson from this murder by providing journalists with better protection against organised crime.Peter R. de Vries, who specialised in covering crime, died of the gunshot injuries to the head that he received on 6 July.

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