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The murder trial of crime journalist Peter R. de Vries may have to be redone because one of the judges has moved abroad.
A judge had planned to relocate her until after judgment was scheduled for July, but the court postponed that decision after new evidence emerged. Appointed, but the law requires the case to be reviewed unless the parties agree.
The de Vries family is frustrated by the possibility of a retrial. “It’s strange,” De Vries’ son Royce said of the absence of a backup judge when speaking to reporters after the hearing.
At an earlier hearing, he said his father took him to soccer practice when he was a child, along with other relatives, nearly €400,000 in compensation for their shock and emotional loss. requested.
brazen murder
According to prosecutors, in July 2021 Delano G, 22, from Thiel, drove into a car on Amsterdam’s Lange Leizetwalsstraat while Kamil E, a 33-year-old Polish national, was driving his getaway car. Shot De Vries 5 times while walking with Prosecutors sought life imprisonment for the two.
At the time of his death, de Vries was acting as an official confidante of Nabil B., a key witness in the Marengo case, 2015 and 2017.
A court spokesperson said the parties are discussing whether they can agree to proceed with the case.
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