<p>Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was critically wounded after being shot in broad daylight in Amsterdam last week, has died in hospital, Dutch media reports said Thursday.</p>.<p>A prominent investigative reporter and commentator, De Vries, 64, was shot at least five times as he exited a television studio near the Dutch capital's centre nine days ago.</p>.<p>He was rushed to hospital where he had been fighting for his life since.</p>.<p>"Peter fought until the end, but he has lost the battle," his family said in a statement to the RTL commercial broadcaster.</p>.<p>"He was surrounded by the people who loved him when he died," they added, saying funeral arrangements have not yet been made.</p>.<p>De Vries, who first won fame for his inside reporting on the kidnapping of Heineken millionaire Freddy Heineken in 1983, most recently had been involved in a court case against one of the country's most wanted drug barons.</p>.<p>The attack on De Vries sparked wide-spread condemnation, with Europe's top official Charles Michel calling it an "attack against our values."</p>.<p>Two suspects were arrested shortly after the shooting and briefly appeared in court last Friday.</p>.<p>The two men, identified by Dutch media as a Polish national Kamil E. aged 35 and Delano G, 21, will remain in custody for another two weeks, said the Amsterdam District Court.</p>.<p>Police arrested the two suspects in a car near The Hague shortly after the shooting.</p>.<p>Dutch media reports said Kamil E., a Polish citizen living in the small central Dutch town of Maurik, allegedly drove the getaway car, while Delano G., from Rotterdam, is believed to have pulled the trigger.</p>.<p>De Vries often appeared as a commentator or spokesman for families of crime victims, particularly in so-called "cold cases."</p>.<p>Most recently he acted as advisor and confidant of Nabil B., the state's key witness in the case against Ridouan Taghi, described as the country's most wanted criminal.</p>.<p>Taghi's organised crime group has been painted as a "well-oiled killing machine" by prosecutors, and De Vries said in a tweet in 2019 that according to police information he was on Taghi's hit list.</p>.<p>"We are not sure, but we are quite convinced that the attack has to do with the consultative work that Mr. De Vries has done for the key witness in a great mafia case," Thomas Bruning, general secretary of the Dutch Society of Journalists, recently told <em>AFP.</em></p>.<p>Security around the case is extra-tight as in 2019, Nabil B.'s lawyer Derk Wiersum was gunned down in the street outside his house.</p>
<p>Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was critically wounded after being shot in broad daylight in Amsterdam last week, has died in hospital, Dutch media reports said Thursday.</p>.<p>A prominent investigative reporter and commentator, De Vries, 64, was shot at least five times as he exited a television studio near the Dutch capital's centre nine days ago.</p>.<p>He was rushed to hospital where he had been fighting for his life since.</p>.<p>"Peter fought until the end, but he has lost the battle," his family said in a statement to the RTL commercial broadcaster.</p>.<p>"He was surrounded by the people who loved him when he died," they added, saying funeral arrangements have not yet been made.</p>.<p>De Vries, who first won fame for his inside reporting on the kidnapping of Heineken millionaire Freddy Heineken in 1983, most recently had been involved in a court case against one of the country's most wanted drug barons.</p>.<p>The attack on De Vries sparked wide-spread condemnation, with Europe's top official Charles Michel calling it an "attack against our values."</p>.<p>Two suspects were arrested shortly after the shooting and briefly appeared in court last Friday.</p>.<p>The two men, identified by Dutch media as a Polish national Kamil E. aged 35 and Delano G, 21, will remain in custody for another two weeks, said the Amsterdam District Court.</p>.<p>Police arrested the two suspects in a car near The Hague shortly after the shooting.</p>.<p>Dutch media reports said Kamil E., a Polish citizen living in the small central Dutch town of Maurik, allegedly drove the getaway car, while Delano G., from Rotterdam, is believed to have pulled the trigger.</p>.<p>De Vries often appeared as a commentator or spokesman for families of crime victims, particularly in so-called "cold cases."</p>.<p>Most recently he acted as advisor and confidant of Nabil B., the state's key witness in the case against Ridouan Taghi, described as the country's most wanted criminal.</p>.<p>Taghi's organised crime group has been painted as a "well-oiled killing machine" by prosecutors, and De Vries said in a tweet in 2019 that according to police information he was on Taghi's hit list.</p>.<p>"We are not sure, but we are quite convinced that the attack has to do with the consultative work that Mr. De Vries has done for the key witness in a great mafia case," Thomas Bruning, general secretary of the Dutch Society of Journalists, recently told <em>AFP.</em></p>.<p>Security around the case is extra-tight as in 2019, Nabil B.'s lawyer Derk Wiersum was gunned down in the street outside his house.</p>