Wilfred Genee sometimes gets a bad feeling that there is still so little attention for the murder of Peter R. de Vries. “It’s almost never talked about anymore, you know.”
Peter R. de Vries was murdered last summer after the broadcast of RTL Boulevard. Not much later, the program decided to leave the studio on Leidseplein in Amsterdam for good. “How often do you still think of Peter R. de Vries?” Wilfred Genee asks Vivienne van den Assem in his BNR radio show.
Unfortunately
Vivienne, one of the presenters of RTL Boulevard, answers: “Well, often. Every day when I’m in the studio anyway, but anyway that very often still pops into my head. It is also only a very short time ago.”
Wilfred: “Well, because so often I think that people have all passed on.”
Vivienne: “What do you mean?”
Wilfred: “Well, you know, we hardly ever talk about it anymore. I don’t think much attention is paid to it in recent weeks. I regret that.”
bizarre thought
Vivienne: “In programs you mean?”
Wilfred: “In programs, to reflect on it again. It still remains a bizarre thought that the man is no longer there, I think.”
Vivienne: “Yes, it is an absurd event. I don’t know if there is a need for continuous attention in programs, but I think that if there are things in the business, it will definitely be about it every time.”
Wilfred: “I had a morning show, I’ve stopped that now, but I had Peter’s De Meter in it, to keep on dealing with things that Peter would have dealt with and such. I’m disappointed that I can’t do that anymore.”
Lifetime
Kees van der Spek, Peter’s bosom friend, does not think that Peter’s murderer will ever be released. “He just gets a life sentence, what do you think? It really won’t last a few years. But I’m not going to get involved in that by doing my own research, for example,” he says in the Weekend.
Kees keeps himself far from that. “I don’t do organized crime, I don’t find that interesting. That’s not my specialty and I don’t know enough about it. I have never been involved with Holleeder or Taghi. That just doesn’t interest me.”