Dina's statement about Joran van der Sloot incident

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Beth Holloway and Peter R de Vries at the International Emmy Award in November 2008 in New York City.

"I'm devastated, it's hitting hard..." Beth Holloway told Hart van Nederland (Heart of the Netherlands - TV show) on Tuesday evening when she heared about the assassination attempt on Peter R de Vries life. De Vries died days later. She sympathized very much with his family. “I am trying to reach them as soon as possible to express my condolences and support.”

18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared without a trace in May 2005 while on vacation in Aruba. She was last seen in the company of Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, who is currently serving a prison sentence for the murder of student Stephany Flores.

De Vries achieved his greatest television success in 2008 with his report on the disappearance of Natalee. With more than 7 million viewers he broke all viewing figures records. He won the prestigious International Emmy Award for the report.

On February 3, 2008, an undercover exposé produced by crime reporter Peter R. de Vries aired on Dutch television showing video of Van der Sloot purportedly smoking marijuana and admitting to being present during Holloway's death. The show became the most watched non-sports program in Dutch television history. Following the airing of the program, Beth Twitty, adhering to the position that the tapes represent the way events transpired, believed that Van der Sloot dumped Natalee's body, possibly alive, into the Caribbean. She told the New York Post that her daughter would still be alive if Van der Sloot had called for help. On September 22, 2008, in New York, De Vries accepted an International Emmy Award in Current Affairs for his coverage while accompanied by Holloway.

On 6 July 2021, de Vries was shot in the head after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam where he had appeared as a guest. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, where he died nine days later.

On 6 July 2021, after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam where he had appeared as a guest, five bullets were fired at him at the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat. De Vries was shot in the head. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The Dutch police arrested three suspects that same evening, one of whom was released the next day, as he was no longer a suspect. De Vries died as a result of the shooting on 15 July 2021. The killing of de Vries was condemned by the Director-General of the UNESCO Audrey Azoulay in a press-release published on the 1st of July. According to global monitoring on the safety of journalists by the Observatory of Killed Journalists, he was the first media professional killed in the Netherlands in 2021.

In 2021, De Vries supported the crown witness in the Marengo trial. In 2021, De Vries supported the crown witness in the Marengo trial.

The Marengo trial or Marengo case (Dutch: Marengo-proces) is a trial of alleged leading members of the Mocro Maffia, a Dutch-Moroccan criminal organisation. Seventeen suspects are standing trial for involvement in a number of murders and attempted murders. The name of the trial was picked at random by a computer and relates to a fabric named marengo.

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