the National Police of Peru stated that no arrests had been made. While in Peru, Holloway spoke with Flores Ramírez's brother Enrique on camera. On 17 September De Vries and the group left Peru for Panama and arrived in Aruba on the same day. He spent a few days in Aruba working with Holloway on a documentary about her missing daughter to be run on Dutch television, with the cooperation of prosecutors who had been investigating Van der Sloot. Politics In 2005, De Vries started a political party, (P.R.D.V. or Party for Justice, Action and Progress). On 31 October 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 16 December would decide whether he would actually continue his party or not, with a 41% cut-off point. Since only 31.4% thought De Vries would be a gain for Dutch politics, he decided to disband the party. Lawyers' and investigations office Together with criminal lawyer Khalid Kasem, in October 2017 de Vries and his son Royce de Vries established a lawyer's office in Diemen (Amsterdam South-East area) De Vries & Kasem – Lawyers / Investigations. Not a lawyer himself, he became the company director, and worked for clients in regard to their media matters or providing a second opinion. Marengo process In 2021, De Vries supported the crown witness in the Marengo trial. Assassination On 6 July 2021, after leaving the television studio of RTL Boulevard in Amsterdam where he had appeared as a guest, five bullets were fired at him at the . De Vries was shot in the head. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The Dutch police arrested three suspects that same evening, one of whom was released the next day, as he was no longer a suspect. De Vries died as a result of the shooting on 15 July 2021. Personal life Vries was married for 35 years to an unidentified woman, and they had a son and daughter. They divorced in 2013. From 2015 until his death, he was in a discreet relationship with a Dutch Afghan writer and journalist, . Akefi revealed the relationship on 30 January 2022 and said that the couple planned to marry in summer 2022, and that they were going to publicise it. Bibliography ("The Heineken Case", 1983) (1984) ("From the