Shootings, fires, and an anti-tank missile: Peter R. de Vries and the battle to cover gangs in the Netherlands
Nabil Bakkali, a thirty-year-old member of the Dutch-Moroccan mafia, was smoking hookah and playing pachisi with friends in a lounge in Utrecht in 2017 when a phone call interrupted their game. It was an associate of Ridouan Taghi, the alleged leader
via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/peter-de-vries-press-freedom-netherlands.php
Eight in ten Dutch journalists say they have experienced aggression and threats, according to a 2021 survey conducted by the Dutch press safety group PersVeilig. Journalists covering the Mocro are at particular risk. “There are no red lines for them,” Peter ter Velde, PersVeilig’s director, said. “They just do what they want to do, and that means killing.”