Leidseplein was chosen because it is where the old studio of RTL Boulevard is located and because it is near the place where the crime reporter was shot exactly a year ago, his daughter Kelly de Vries told RTL Boulevard. Mayor Femke Halsema says in the RTL 4 program that she thinks it is special about the family that the monument should not only be about the person, “but about the ideas, his idiosyncrasy, his obstinacy, his sense of justice.”
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The municipality calls on people to contribute ideas about the monument. Until 17 July, a word can be sent in via the municipality’s website that people think suits De Vries. Five artists were asked to share their vision of the monument with the words submitted as inspiration. It is not yet known when the monument will be erected.
On Wednesday it was also announced that the Gouden Tip Foundation will continue as the Peter R. de Vries Foundation. The name change was made “as a tribute to the most extraordinary crime reporter our country has known and to continue his legacy,” the foundation writes on its website.
De Vries founded the foundation just before his death to raise money for the golden tip in the disappearance case of Tanja Groen who disappeared in 1993. Although more than a million euros was raised, the case is still unresolved. This year, the Peter R. de Vries Foundation will work to resolve three other unresolved cases.