Peter R. de Vries

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Peter Rudolf de Vries (born 14 November 1956 in Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland) is a Dutch crime reporter with his own television program, and also a politician.

De Vries tracked down the Heineken-kidnapper Frans Meijer in Paraguay, worked on behalf of the Two from Putten and revealed that Mabel Wisse Smit knew the criminal Klaas Bruinsma better than she had previously admitted. Another important issue in his show was a found floppy-disk. This disk contained detailed information from AIVD research, the Dutch secret service. It turned out that the service observed murdered politician Pim Fortuyn; the service thought that he had sex with Moroccan minors.

In 2005 De Vries decided to start a new political party, called P.R.D.V.: Partij voor Rechtvaardigheid, Daadkracht en Vooruitgang (Party for Justice, Determination and Progress). On October 31 he presented his plans, that mainly focused on changing the existing political culture in the Netherlands. To prove his point he stated that an opinion poll on December 16 would decide whether he would actually continue his party or not. Since only 31,4% thought de Vries would be a gain for Dutch politics, and not his longed 41%, he decided not to continue this party.

On 13 September 2006, de Vries was arrested in Oisterwijk and detained for several hours in Tilburg when he tried to confront a police officer with allegations about questionable actions concerning the inheritances of elderly women.^[1] He is charged with one count of trespassing.