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The hearing will take place on Thursday 18 January at the Amsterdam courthouse.
Last Friday the AD published an article on recordings of conversations between Khalid Kasem, Peter R. de Vries and his son Royce, most likely captured by Peter R. de Vries. In these recordings, former lawyer and presenter Khalid Kasem can be heard admitting to father and son De Vries that he had bribed an official.
The CEO conducted further research into the records held by the newspaper. In the context of that investigation, both Kasem and Royce de Vries were contacted again earlier this week with questions.
Summary documents
De Vries then initiated summary proceedings. According to De Vries, the recordings were stolen from his father Peter R. de Vries’ phone and are strictly confidential conversations between secret custodians: two lawyers and an office manager (Khalid Kasem, Royce de Vries and Peter R. de Vries, ed.). According to De Vries, the Bar Association can also participate in the summary proceedings.
In a statement attached to the first publication, the CEO wrote that, according to the sources who shared these recordings with the editorial team and who call themselves “The Three Musketeers”, Peter R. de Vries made the recordings in question and published online, archived.
Editor-in-chief Rennie Rijpma: “Our journalists work with an open mind and therefore submit questions to the people involved as part of the journalistic investigation into these recordings. They may or may not answer these questions and provide an answer to our journalists. I believe that now De Vries, before knowing the content of the article, is initiating summary proceedings to prevent its publication. Only by initiating summary proceedings would a significant interference with the freedom of the press be committed.”
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