Six convicted on appeal for the murder of lawyer Derk Wiersum in the Netherlands

A Dutch appeals court increases sentences for six defendants in the Wiersum case.

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Convicted of membership in a criminal organization, some receive up to eleven years in prison.

The lawyer, murdered in 2019, was defending a key witness in a trial against organized crime.

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