According to the report, the judiciary has leaked the names of their former lawyer, including Royce de Vries, to Telegraaf journalist John van den Heuvel. The lawyers worked under complete anonymity because of the threat. Journalist Van den Heuvel mentioned De Vries by name during an interview in a video on the newspaper’s website on 26 May.
Royce de Vries is the son of Peter R. de Vries, then an advisor and confidant of Nabil B. In March 2018, B.’s innocent brother Reduan was shot dead, in September 2019 his lawyer Derk Wiersum met the same fate. The ‘cry for help’ from the family members of the crown witness is today in Het Parool.
Attorney’s Identity Revealed
Peter R. de Vries warned in a conversation with the police on 17 May that crown witness B. would suspend the deal with the Public Prosecution Service, the report states. B. was very dissatisfied with the security measures for his relatives. In the conversation, the police officer involved said that the Public Prosecution Service would ‘do everything in its power in the field of advertising and that there would also be ‘leaking’, according to the report.
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More than a week later, the identity of the lawyer was revealed, according to the declarants. According to them, it is ‘out of discussion’ that the leak is with the judiciary. Royce de Vries stopped working for B’s relatives after his father’s murder. He was urged to do so by his loved ones. In early January, he announced that the police had warned him of a serious threat to his life.
In the cry for help, one of B.’s sisters calls the working method of the Public Prosecution Service ‘resentful’ and says that she is afraid that she herself will also become a victim. “I am distraught and stand with my back against the wall without Peter R. de Vries and without a lawyer. Fearful of fatal consequences, silenced and alone.”
Response OM
The Public Prosecution Service says in a response: “With the police, the Public Prosecution Service is relentlessly committed to protecting a large group of people involved in the Marengo process against a hitherto unknown threat. an even more complex security assignment. We have no interest in that at all. Since an investigation is ongoing, we can’t respond to it any further at the moment.”
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