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Dutch gangster case: Shock at murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum
« on: September 18, 2019, 08:35:36 pm »
"Foreigners" probably killed this lawyer in the Netherlands.

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Dutch gangster case: Shock at murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum
    18 September 2019

A Dutch lawyer in a major gangland case has been shot dead outside his Amsterdam home - a crime described by police as exceptionally brutal.


Derk Wiersum, 44, was the lawyer for a state witness in a case against members of a violent drug gang, who are accused of five murders between 2015 and 2017.

A hoodie-wearing suspect fled on foot.

Police chief Erik Akerboom said "with this brutal murder, a new limit has been crossed: now even people simply doing their work no longer seem safe".

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49740366
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BREAKING: Several shootings in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Known lawyer shot dead, two wounded in new shooting. Lawyer was leading case against two foreign killers, who are currently on the run, suspected of killing several people in the Netherlands.


https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1174404238996332545

Per the BNL tweet, several shootings IF so, we have just the BBC report so far, breaking news.

Early reports on all of this.  I'd think this was mainly this assassination of this lawyer.

Yup, reading the rest of the BBC article,  the trials involved Moroccans apparently.

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